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Page 104
... poem ; demonstrating the ex- istence and providence of God . In seven books . By Sir Richard Blackmore , knt . M. D. and fellow of the college of physicians in London . " No 340. MONDAY , MARCH 31 , 1712 . Quis 104 339 . SPECTATOR .
... poem ; demonstrating the ex- istence and providence of God . In seven books . By Sir Richard Blackmore , knt . M. D. and fellow of the college of physicians in London . " No 340. MONDAY , MARCH 31 , 1712 . Quis 104 339 . SPECTATOR .
Page 158
... poems such of their remarkable adventures as were still talked ' of among his contemporaries . The story of Æneas , on which Virgil founded his poem , was likewise very bare of circumstances , and by that means afforded him an ...
... poems such of their remarkable adventures as were still talked ' of among his contemporaries . The story of Æneas , on which Virgil founded his poem , was likewise very bare of circumstances , and by that means afforded him an ...
Page 193
... poem , the following lines , in which we see the an- gels heaving up the earth , and placing it in a dif- ferent posture to the sun from what it had before the fall of man , is conceived with that sublime imagina- tion which was so ...
... poem , the following lines , in which we see the an- gels heaving up the earth , and placing it in a dif- ferent posture to the sun from what it had before the fall of man , is conceived with that sublime imagina- tion which was so ...
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