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Page 56
... described with the utmost flights of human imagination . There is nothing in the first and last day's engage- ment which does not appear natural , and agreeable enough to the ideas most readers would conceive of a fight between two ...
... described with the utmost flights of human imagination . There is nothing in the first and last day's engage- ment which does not appear natural , and agreeable enough to the ideas most readers would conceive of a fight between two ...
Page 118
... described in it is every way suitable to a state of innocence . If the reader compares the description which Adam here gives of his leading Eve to the nuptial bower , with that which Mr. Dryden has made on the same 118 THE SPECTATOR .
... described in it is every way suitable to a state of innocence . If the reader compares the description which Adam here gives of his leading Eve to the nuptial bower , with that which Mr. Dryden has made on the same 118 THE SPECTATOR .
Page 197
... described as re- membering mercy in the midst of judgment , and com- manding Michael to deliver his message in the mild- est terms , lest the spirit of man , which was already broken with the sense of his guilt and misery , should fail ...
... described as re- membering mercy in the midst of judgment , and com- manding Michael to deliver his message in the mild- est terms , lest the spirit of man , which was already broken with the sense of his guilt and misery , should fail ...
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