The Spectator, Volume 5Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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... fubject of which gave occafion to them . The author's imagination was fo inflamed with this great fcene of action , that where . ever he speaks of it , he rifes , if poffible , above himfelf ! Thus where he mentions Satan in the ...
... fubject of which gave occafion to them . The author's imagination was fo inflamed with this great fcene of action , that where . ever he speaks of it , he rifes , if poffible , above himfelf ! Thus where he mentions Satan in the ...
Page 83
... fubject in Holy Writ , the author has numberless allufions to them through the whole course of this book . The great critic I have before mentioned , though an heathen , has taken notice of the fublime manner in which the lawgiver of ...
... fubject in Holy Writ , the author has numberless allufions to them through the whole course of this book . The great critic I have before mentioned , though an heathen , has taken notice of the fublime manner in which the lawgiver of ...
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... fubject is capable of poetical orna- ments , as particularly in the confufion which he de- fcribes among the builders of Babel , and in his short fketch of the plagues of Egypt . The form of hail and fire , with the darknefs that ...
... fubject is capable of poetical orna- ments , as particularly in the confufion which he de- fcribes among the builders of Babel , and in his short fketch of the plagues of Egypt . The form of hail and fire , with the darknefs that ...
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