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" I cannot conclude this book upon the creation without mentioning a poem which has lately appeared under that title.* The work was undertaken with so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one... "
Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People - Page 135
by Ephraim Chambers - 1870
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...good an intention, and is executed with so, great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased * Creation, a philosophical poem; demonstrating the existence and...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 422 pages
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Select British Classics, Volume 15

English literature - 1803 - 364 pages
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all the charms of...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all the charms of...
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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J ..., Volumes 27-34

British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased * Creation, a philosophical poem ; demonstrating the existence and...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all the charms of...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 9-10

British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all * Creation, a...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all the charms of...
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The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 5

1827 - 402 pages
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