The Spectator, Volume 5W. Wilson, 1778 |
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Page 154
... poem is of an infinitely greater extent , and fills the mind with many more aftonishing circumftances . Satan having furrounded the earth feven times , departs at length from Paradise . We then fee him fteering his courfe among the ...
... poem is of an infinitely greater extent , and fills the mind with many more aftonishing circumftances . Satan having furrounded the earth feven times , departs at length from Paradise . We then fee him fteering his courfe among the ...
Page 209
... poem would end better with the paffage here quoted , than with the two verfes which follow : They hand in hand , with wand'ring fteps and flow , Through Eden took their folitary way . Thefe two verfes , though they have their beauty ...
... poem would end better with the paffage here quoted , than with the two verfes which follow : They hand in hand , with wand'ring fteps and flow , Through Eden took their folitary way . Thefe two verfes , though they have their beauty ...
Page 210
... poem , and which makes this work more ufeful and inftructive than other poem in any language . any Those who have criticised on the Odyssey , the Iliad , and Eneid , have taken a great deal of pains to fix the number of months and days ...
... poem , and which makes this work more ufeful and inftructive than other poem in any language . any Those who have criticised on the Odyssey , the Iliad , and Eneid , have taken a great deal of pains to fix the number of months and days ...
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