The Spectator, Volume 5J. Tonson, 1729 - English essays |
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... Poems out of thofe Languages , that People general . ly talked of feeing themselves in Wells , Fountains , Lakes , and ... Poem . The Defign of this Letter is to defire your Thoughts , whether there may not alfo be fome < Moral couched ...
... Poems out of thofe Languages , that People general . ly talked of feeing themselves in Wells , Fountains , Lakes , and ... Poem . The Defign of this Letter is to defire your Thoughts , whether there may not alfo be fome < Moral couched ...
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... Poem . That Day I oft remember , when from fleep I firft awak'd , and found my felf repos'd Under a fhade of flow'rs , much wond'ring where And what I was , whence thither brought , and how . Not diftant far from thence a murmuring ...
... Poem . That Day I oft remember , when from fleep I firft awak'd , and found my felf repos'd Under a fhade of flow'rs , much wond'ring where And what I was , whence thither brought , and how . Not diftant far from thence a murmuring ...
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... Poem , in preparing the Reader for the feveral Occurrences that arife in it founds upon the above - mention'd Circumstance , the first Part of the fifth Book . Adam upon his awaking finds Eve ftill afleep , with an unufual Difcompofure ...
... Poem , in preparing the Reader for the feveral Occurrences that arife in it founds upon the above - mention'd Circumstance , the first Part of the fifth Book . Adam upon his awaking finds Eve ftill afleep , with an unufual Difcompofure ...
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... Poem is finely pre- fag'd on this Occafion , the Particulars of it are fo artfully fhadow'd , that they do not anticipate the Story which fol- lows in the ninth Book . I fhall only add , that tho ' the Vifion it felf is founded upon ...
... Poem is finely pre- fag'd on this Occafion , the Particulars of it are fo artfully fhadow'd , that they do not anticipate the Story which fol- lows in the ninth Book . I fhall only add , that tho ' the Vifion it felf is founded upon ...
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... Poem , I proceed to the Defcription which the Poet gives of Raphael . His Departure from before the Throne , and his Flight thro ' the Choirs of Angels , is finely imaged . As Milton every where fills his Poem with Circumstances that ...
... Poem , I proceed to the Defcription which the Poet gives of Raphael . His Departure from before the Throne , and his Flight thro ' the Choirs of Angels , is finely imaged . As Milton every where fills his Poem with Circumstances that ...
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