The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... Reader . THERE are indeed fo many wonderful Strokes of Po- etry in this Book , and fuch a variety of fublime Ideas , that it would have been impoffible to have given them a place within the bounds of this Paper . Befides that , I find ...
... Reader . THERE are indeed fo many wonderful Strokes of Po- etry in this Book , and fuch a variety of fublime Ideas , that it would have been impoffible to have given them a place within the bounds of this Paper . Befides that , I find ...
Page 70
... Reader , without producing in it any Thing like Tumult or Agitation . THE Critick above mentioned , among the Rules which he lays down for fucceeding in the fublime Way of Writing , propofes to his Reader , that he fhould imitate the ...
... Reader , without producing in it any Thing like Tumult or Agitation . THE Critick above mentioned , among the Rules which he lays down for fucceeding in the fublime Way of Writing , propofes to his Reader , that he fhould imitate the ...
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... Reader than this Difcourfe of our great Ancestor ; as nothing can be more furprizing and delight- ful to us , than to hear the Sentiments that arofe in the first Man while he was yet new and fresh from the Hands of his Creator . The ...
... Reader than this Difcourfe of our great Ancestor ; as nothing can be more furprizing and delight- ful to us , than to hear the Sentiments that arofe in the first Man while he was yet new and fresh from the Hands of his Creator . The ...
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