The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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... Poet reprefented the whole Body of the Earth trembling , even before it was created ? All Heaven refounded , and had Earth been then , All Earth had to its Centre fhook IN how fublime and just a manner does he afterwards defcribe the ...
... Poet reprefented the whole Body of the Earth trembling , even before it was created ? All Heaven refounded , and had Earth been then , All Earth had to its Centre fhook IN how fublime and just a manner does he afterwards defcribe the ...
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... Poet had his Eye upon Ovid's Account of the univerfal Deluge , the Reader may ob- ferve with how much Judgment he has avoided every thing that is redundant or puerile in the Latin Poet . We do not here fee the Wolf fwimming among the ...
... Poet had his Eye upon Ovid's Account of the univerfal Deluge , the Reader may ob- ferve with how much Judgment he has avoided every thing that is redundant or puerile in the Latin Poet . We do not here fee the Wolf fwimming among the ...
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... Poet , And in their Palaces , Where Lux'ry late reign'd , Sea - Monsters whelp'd And ftabld- than that in Ovid , where we are told that the Sea - Calfs lay in those Places where the Goats were us❜d to browze ? The Reader may find ...
... Poet , And in their Palaces , Where Lux'ry late reign'd , Sea - Monsters whelp'd And ftabld- than that in Ovid , where we are told that the Sea - Calfs lay in those Places where the Goats were us❜d to browze ? The Reader may find ...
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