The Spectator, Volume 4Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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Page 66
... Fall of Man , has related the fall of thofe angels who are his profeffed enemies . Befides the many other beauties in fuch an epifode , its running parallel with the great action of the poem hinders it from breaking the unity fo much as ...
... Fall of Man , has related the fall of thofe angels who are his profeffed enemies . Befides the many other beauties in fuch an epifode , its running parallel with the great action of the poem hinders it from breaking the unity fo much as ...
Page 93
... fall ' into any misfortune , it does not only raife our pity but our terror ; because we are afraid that the like ' misfortunes may happen to ourselves , who refemble the character of the fuffering perfon . ' I fhall take another ...
... fall ' into any misfortune , it does not only raife our pity but our terror ; because we are afraid that the like ' misfortunes may happen to ourselves , who refemble the character of the fuffering perfon . ' I fhall take another ...
Page 173
... fall in a manner unbecoming of himself , and the greatest concern that appeared in the behaviour of Lucretia when the ftabbed herfelf , was , that her body fhould lie in an attitude , worthy the mind which had inhabited it . Ne non ...
... fall in a manner unbecoming of himself , and the greatest concern that appeared in the behaviour of Lucretia when the ftabbed herfelf , was , that her body fhould lie in an attitude , worthy the mind which had inhabited it . Ne non ...
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