The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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... Poem is of an infinitely greater Extent , and fills the Mind with many more aftonishing Circumstances . Satan , having furrounded the Earth feven times , departs at length from Paradife . We then fee him fteering his Courfe among the ...
... Poem is of an infinitely greater Extent , and fills the Mind with many more aftonishing Circumstances . Satan , having furrounded the Earth feven times , departs at length from Paradife . We then fee him fteering his Courfe among the ...
Page 209
... Poem would end better with the Paffage here quoted , than with the two Verses which follow : They hand in hand , with wand'ring Steps and flow , Through Eden took their folitary Way . THESE two Verfes , though they have their Beauty ...
... Poem would end better with the Paffage here quoted , than with the two Verses which follow : They hand in hand , with wand'ring Steps and flow , Through Eden took their folitary Way . THESE two Verfes , though they have their Beauty ...
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... Poem , and which makes this Work more ufeful and inftructive than any other Poem in any Language . THOSE who have criticifed on the Odyfey , the Iliad , and Eneid , have taken a great deal of pains to fix the Number of Months and Days ...
... Poem , and which makes this Work more ufeful and inftructive than any other Poem in any Language . THOSE who have criticifed on the Odyfey , the Iliad , and Eneid , have taken a great deal of pains to fix the Number of Months and Days ...
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