The Spectator, Volume 3J.M. Dent & Company, 1925 |
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Page 24
... represented in very lively Colours . Several of the French , Italian , and English Poets have given a Loose to their Imaginations in the Description of Angels : But I do not remember to have met with any so finely drawn , and so ...
... represented in very lively Colours . Several of the French , Italian , and English Poets have given a Loose to their Imaginations in the Description of Angels : But I do not remember to have met with any so finely drawn , and so ...
Page 25
... represented as sitting down at Table with Adam , and eating of the Fruits of Paradise . The Occasion naturally leads him to his Discourse on the Food of Angels . After having thus entered into Conversation with Man upon more indif ...
... represented as sitting down at Table with Adam , and eating of the Fruits of Paradise . The Occasion naturally leads him to his Discourse on the Food of Angels . After having thus entered into Conversation with Man upon more indif ...
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... represents that Martyr to good Housewifry , who died by the Prick of a Needle . Upon our Interpreter's telling us , that she was a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth , the Knight was very inquisitive into her Name and Family , and ...
... represents that Martyr to good Housewifry , who died by the Prick of a Needle . Upon our Interpreter's telling us , that she was a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth , the Knight was very inquisitive into her Name and Family , and ...
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... represents a learned Man who stood for a Professorship in Philosophy , as unqualified for it by the Shortness of his Beard . Elian , in his Account of Zoilus , the pretended Crítick , who wrote against Homer and Plato , and thought him ...
... represents a learned Man who stood for a Professorship in Philosophy , as unqualified for it by the Shortness of his Beard . Elian , in his Account of Zoilus , the pretended Crítick , who wrote against Homer and Plato , and thought him ...
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... represented as the Arms of the Almighty . The Tearing up the Hills was not altogether so daring a Thought as the former . We are , in some measure , prepared for such an Incident by the Description of the Gyants ' War , which we meet ...
... represented as the Arms of the Almighty . The Tearing up the Hills was not altogether so daring a Thought as the former . We are , in some measure , prepared for such an Incident by the Description of the Gyants ' War , which we meet ...
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