The Spectator, Volume 4Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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Page 67
... whole circle of being , whether within the verge of nature , or out of it , has a proper part affigned it in this admirable poem . In poetry , as in architecture , not only the whole , but the principal members , and every part of them ...
... whole circle of being , whether within the verge of nature , or out of it , has a proper part affigned it in this admirable poem . In poetry , as in architecture , not only the whole , but the principal members , and every part of them ...
Page 219
... whole exordium rifes very happily into no- ble language and fentiment , as I think the tranfition to the fable is exquifitely beautiful and natural . The nine days aftonishment , in which the angels lay entranced after their dreadful ...
... whole exordium rifes very happily into no- ble language and fentiment , as I think the tranfition to the fable is exquifitely beautiful and natural . The nine days aftonishment , in which the angels lay entranced after their dreadful ...
Page 287
... whole face of nature that ap- peared to him new and fresh in all its beauties , with the fimile illuftrating this circumftance , fills the mind . of the reader with as furprising and glorious an idea as any that arifes in the whole poem ...
... whole face of nature that ap- peared to him new and fresh in all its beauties , with the fimile illuftrating this circumftance , fills the mind . of the reader with as furprising and glorious an idea as any that arifes in the whole poem ...
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