The Spectator, Volume 3J.M. Dent & Company, 1925 |
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... Poet lets us know , that the first Woman immediately after her Creation , ran to a Looking - Glass , and became so enamoured of her own Face , that she had never removed , to view any of the other Works of Nature , had not she been led ...
... Poet lets us know , that the first Woman immediately after her Creation , ran to a Looking - Glass , and became so enamoured of her own Face , that she had never removed , to view any of the other Works of Nature , had not she been led ...
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... Poet in the preceding Speech remember'd those two Passages which are spoken on the like Occasion , and fill'd with the same pleasing Images of Nature , My beloved spake , and said unto me , Rise up , my love , my fair one , and come ...
... Poet in the preceding Speech remember'd those two Passages which are spoken on the like Occasion , and fill'd with the same pleasing Images of Nature , My beloved spake , and said unto me , Rise up , my love , my fair one , and come ...
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... Poet had this delightful Scene in his Mind , Eve's Dream is full of those high Conceits engen dring Pride , which , we are told , the Devil endeavoured to instil into her . Of this Kind is that Part of it where she fancies herself ...
... Poet had this delightful Scene in his Mind , Eve's Dream is full of those high Conceits engen dring Pride , which , we are told , the Devil endeavoured to instil into her . Of this Kind is that Part of it where she fancies herself ...
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... 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 are marvellous and astonishing , he describes ...
... 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 are marvellous and astonishing , he describes ...
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... Poets have given a Loose to their Imaginations in the Description of Angels : But I do not remember to have met with any so ... Poet concludes his Description with a Circumstance , which is altogether new , and imagined with the greatest ...
... Poets have given a Loose to their Imaginations in the Description of Angels : But I do not remember to have met with any so ... Poet concludes his Description with a Circumstance , which is altogether new , and imagined with the greatest ...
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