The Spectator, Volume 5W. Wilson, 1778 |
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Page 53
... notice of the most ordinary reader . There are indeed fo many wonderful ftrokes of po- etry in this book , and such a variety of fublime ideas , that it would have been impoffible to have given them a place within the bounds of this ...
... notice of the most ordinary reader . There are indeed fo many wonderful ftrokes of po- etry in this book , and such a variety of fublime ideas , that it would have been impoffible to have given them a place within the bounds of this ...
Page 147
... notice of but by attacking what has gained fome repu- tation in the world , would have furnished me with bufi- nefs enough , had they found me disposed to enter the lifts with them I shall conclude with the fable of Boccalini's ...
... notice of but by attacking what has gained fome repu- tation in the world , would have furnished me with bufi- nefs enough , had they found me disposed to enter the lifts with them I shall conclude with the fable of Boccalini's ...
Page 153
... notice in my remarks of fuch as are of a poetical nature , and which are woven with great beauty into the body of the fable . Of this kind is that paffage in the prefent book , where defcribing Sin and Death as march- ing thro ' the ...
... notice in my remarks of fuch as are of a poetical nature , and which are woven with great beauty into the body of the fable . Of this kind is that paffage in the prefent book , where defcribing Sin and Death as march- ing thro ' the ...
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