The Spectator, Volume 5W. Wilson, 1778 |
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... poet reprefented the whole body of the earth trembling , even before it was created ? All bear'n refounded , and had ... poet has ftill found means to make his readers conceive an idea of him , beyond wast he himself is able to defcribe ...
... poet reprefented the whole body of the earth trembling , even before it was created ? All bear'n refounded , and had ... poet has ftill found means to make his readers conceive an idea of him , beyond wast he himself is able to defcribe ...
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... poet had his eye upon Ovid's account of the univerfal deluge , the reader may obferve with how much judgment he has avoided every thing that is redundant or puerile in the Latin poet . We do not here fee the wolf fwimming among the ...
... poet had his eye upon Ovid's account of the univerfal deluge , the reader may obferve with how much judgment he has avoided every thing that is redundant or puerile in the Latin poet . We do not here fee the wolf fwimming among the ...
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... poet , -And in their palaces , Where luxury late reign'd , fea - monsters whelp'd And ftabl'd- than that in Ovid , where we are told that the fea - calfs lay in those places where the goats were used to browse ? The reader may find ...
... poet , -And in their palaces , Where luxury late reign'd , fea - monsters whelp'd And ftabl'd- than that in Ovid , where we are told that the fea - calfs lay in those places where the goats were used to browse ? The reader may find ...
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