The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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... poet in the preceding speech remembered those two passages , which are spoken on the like occasion , and filled with the same pleas- ing images of nature ' . " My beloved spake , and said unto me , Rise up , my love , my fair one , and ...
... poet in the preceding speech remembered those two passages , which are spoken on the like occasion , and filled with the same pleas- ing images of nature ' . " My beloved spake , and said unto me , Rise up , my love , my fair one , and ...
Page 64
... poets , and of Homer in particular . It was certainly a very bold thought in our author , to ascribe the first use of ... poet's use , is the opinion of many learned men , that the fable of the giants ' war , which makes so great a noise ...
... poets , and of Homer in particular . It was certainly a very bold thought in our author , to ascribe the first use of ... poet's use , is the opinion of many learned men , that the fable of the giants ' war , which makes so great a noise ...
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... poet had his eye upon Ovid's account of the universal deluge , the reader may observe with how much judgment he has avoid- ed every thing that is redundant or puerile in the Latin poet . We do not here see the wolf swimming among the ...
... poet had his eye upon Ovid's account of the universal deluge , the reader may observe with how much judgment he has avoid- ed every thing that is redundant or puerile in the Latin poet . We do not here see the wolf swimming among the ...
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