The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... Poet , v . 110 . Grief dejects , and wrings the tortured foul . ROSCOMMON . T is often faid , after a man has heard a ftory with extraordinary circumftances , It is a very good one if it be true : but as for the following relation , I ...
... Poet , v . 110 . Grief dejects , and wrings the tortured foul . ROSCOMMON . T is often faid , after a man has heard a ftory with extraordinary circumftances , It is a very good one if it be true : but as for the following relation , I ...
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... poet lets us know , that the first woman immediately ⚫ after her creation ran to a looking - glass , and became fo enamoured of her own face , that he had never removed to view any of the other works of nature , had the not been led ...
... poet lets us know , that the first woman immediately ⚫ after her creation ran to a looking - glass , and became fo enamoured of her own face , that he had never removed to view any of the other works of nature , had the not been led ...
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... poet in the preceding fpeech remember'd thofe two paffages , which are fpoken on the like occafion , and fill'd with the fame pleafing images of nature . My beloved Spake , and said unto me , Rife up , my love , my fair one , and come ...
... poet in the preceding fpeech remember'd thofe two paffages , which are fpoken on the like occafion , and fill'd with the fame pleafing images of nature . My beloved Spake , and said unto me , Rife up , my love , my fair one , and come ...
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... poet would have made Adam talk thro ' the whole work in fuch fentiments as thefe : But flat- tery and falfhood are not the courtship of Milton's Adam , and could not be heard by Eve in the state of innocence , excepting only in a dream ...
... poet would have made Adam talk thro ' the whole work in fuch fentiments as thefe : But flat- tery and falfhood are not the courtship of Milton's Adam , and could not be heard by Eve in the state of innocence , excepting only in a dream ...
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... poet gives of Raphael . His de- parture from before the throne , and his flight thrɔ ' the choirs of angels , is finely imaged . As Miten every where fills his poem with circumftances that are mar- vellous and aftonishing , he defcribes ...
... poet gives of Raphael . His de- parture from before the throne , and his flight thrɔ ' the choirs of angels , is finely imaged . As Miten every where fills his poem with circumftances that are mar- vellous and aftonishing , he defcribes ...
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