The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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Page 102
... beautiful Defcription of the Impreffion which this Difcourfe of the Archangel made on our firft Parents . Adam afterwards , by a very natural Curiofity , inquires concerning the Motions of thofe Celestial Bodies which make the moft ...
... beautiful Defcription of the Impreffion which this Difcourfe of the Archangel made on our firft Parents . Adam afterwards , by a very natural Curiofity , inquires concerning the Motions of thofe Celestial Bodies which make the moft ...
Page 128
... beautiful and natural Fictions of his own , that his whole Story looks only like a Comment upon facred Writ , or rather feems to be a full and com- plete Relation of what the other is only an Epitome . I have infifted the longer on this ...
... beautiful and natural Fictions of his own , that his whole Story looks only like a Comment upon facred Writ , or rather feems to be a full and com- plete Relation of what the other is only an Epitome . I have infifted the longer on this ...
Page 158
... beautiful extended Allegories are certainly fome of the finest Compofitions of Genius ; but , as I have before obferved , are not agreeable to the Nature of an Heroick Poem . This of Sin and Death is very exquifite in its Kind , if not ...
... beautiful extended Allegories are certainly fome of the finest Compofitions of Genius ; but , as I have before obferved , are not agreeable to the Nature of an Heroick Poem . This of Sin and Death is very exquifite in its Kind , if not ...
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