The Spectator, Volume 3J.M. Dent & Company, 1925 |
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Page 84
... July 1 -Mentis gratissimus error . - Hor . о HERE is a kind of Writing , wherein the Poet quite loses sight of Nature , and entertains his Reader's Imagination with the Characters and Actions of such Persons as have many of them no ...
... July 1 -Mentis gratissimus error . - Hor . о HERE is a kind of Writing , wherein the Poet quite loses sight of Nature , and entertains his Reader's Imagination with the Characters and Actions of such Persons as have many of them no ...
Page 85
... July 1 , 1712 . Prejudices , and humour those Notions which we have imbibed in our Infancy , For , otherwise , he will be apt to make his Fairies talk like People of his own Species , and not like other Setts of Beings , who converse ...
... July 1 , 1712 . Prejudices , and humour those Notions which we have imbibed in our Infancy , For , otherwise , he will be apt to make his Fairies talk like People of his own Species , and not like other Setts of Beings , who converse ...
Page 86
... July 1 , 1712 . The Ancients have not much of this Poetry among them , for , indeed , almost the whole Substance of it owes its Original to the Darkness and Superstition of later Ages , when pious Frauds were made use of to amuse ...
... July 1 , 1712 . The Ancients have not much of this Poetry among them , for , indeed , almost the whole Substance of it owes its Original to the Darkness and Superstition of later Ages , when pious Frauds were made use of to amuse ...
Page 87
... July 1 , 1712 . and Death in Milton . We find a whole Creation of the like shadowy Persons in Spencer , who had an admirable Talent in Representations of this kind . I have discoursed of these Emblematical Persons in former Papers , and ...
... July 1 , 1712 . and Death in Milton . We find a whole Creation of the like shadowy Persons in Spencer , who had an admirable Talent in Representations of this kind . I have discoursed of these Emblematical Persons in former Papers , and ...
Page 88
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele George Gregory Smith. day , July 2 , 1712 . No. 420. the Historian , but I am only to speak of him as he is Wednes qualified to ... July 2 , Proportions which its several Objects bear to 88 THE SPECTATOR.
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele George Gregory Smith. day , July 2 , 1712 . No. 420. the Historian , but I am only to speak of him as he is Wednes qualified to ... July 2 , Proportions which its several Objects bear to 88 THE SPECTATOR.
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