The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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Page 53
... Notice of the most ordinary Reader . THERE are indeed fo many wonderful Strokes of Poetry in this Book , and fuch a Variety of fublime Ideas , that it would have been impoffible to have given them a place within the Bounds of this Paper ...
... Notice of the most ordinary Reader . THERE are indeed fo many wonderful Strokes of Poetry in this Book , and fuch a Variety of fublime Ideas , that it would have been impoffible to have given them a place within the Bounds of this Paper ...
Page 147
... notice of but by attacking what has gain'd fome Reputa- tion in the World , would have furnish'd me with Bufi- nefs enough , had they found me difpofed to enter the Lifts with them . I fhall conclude with the Fable of Boccalini's ...
... notice of but by attacking what has gain'd fome Reputa- tion in the World , would have furnish'd me with Bufi- nefs enough , had they found me difpofed to enter the Lifts with them . I fhall conclude with the Fable of Boccalini's ...
Page 153
... notice in my Remarks of fuch as are of a Poetical Nature , and which are woven with great Beauty into the Body of the Fable . Of this kind is that Paffage in the prefent Book , where defcribing Sin and Death as marching thro ' the Works ...
... notice in my Remarks of fuch as are of a Poetical Nature , and which are woven with great Beauty into the Body of the Fable . Of this kind is that Paffage in the prefent Book , where defcribing Sin and Death as marching thro ' the Works ...
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