The Spectator, Volume 5Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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... given a loofe to their imaginations in the defcription of angels : but I do not remember to have met with any fo finely drawn , and fo conformable to the notions which are given of them in Scripture , as this in Milton . After having ...
... given a loofe to their imaginations in the defcription of angels : but I do not remember to have met with any fo finely drawn , and fo conformable to the notions which are given of them in Scripture , as this in Milton . After having ...
Page 57
... given him , we are told , out of the armoury of God : 66 But the fword " Of Michael from the armoury of God " Was giv'n him temper'd fo , that neither keen " Nor folid might refift that edge : it met " The fword of Satan , with fteep ...
... given him , we are told , out of the armoury of God : 66 But the fword " Of Michael from the armoury of God " Was giv'n him temper'd fo , that neither keen " Nor folid might refift that edge : it met " The fword of Satan , with fteep ...
Page 137
... given of- fence to feveral critics , may be accounted for the fame way . Virgil himself , before he begins that relation , pre- miles , that what he was going to tell appeared incredi- ble , but that it was juftified by tradition . What ...
... given of- fence to feveral critics , may be accounted for the fame way . Virgil himself , before he begins that relation , pre- miles , that what he was going to tell appeared incredi- ble , but that it was juftified by tradition . What ...
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