The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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Page 92
... fable with very agreeable plots and intricacies , not only by the many adventures in his voyage , and the fubtilty of his behaviour , but by the various concealments and difcoveries of his perfon in feveral parts of that poem . But the ...
... fable with very agreeable plots and intricacies , not only by the many adventures in his voyage , and the fubtilty of his behaviour , but by the various concealments and difcoveries of his perfon in feveral parts of that poem . But the ...
Page 112
... fable and characters in Milton's Paradife Loft . The parts which remain to be confidered , according to Ariftotle's method , are the fentiments and language . Be- fore I enter upon the firft of thefe , I muft advertise my reader , that ...
... fable and characters in Milton's Paradife Loft . The parts which remain to be confidered , according to Ariftotle's method , are the fentiments and language . Be- fore I enter upon the firft of thefe , I muft advertise my reader , that ...
Page 136
... fable , the characters , and fentiments in the Paradife Loft , we are in the laft place to confider the language ; and as the learned world is very much divided upon Milton as to this point , I hope they will excufe me if I appear ...
... fable , the characters , and fentiments in the Paradife Loft , we are in the laft place to confider the language ; and as the learned world is very much divided upon Milton as to this point , I hope they will excufe me if I appear ...
Page 161
... fable , the characters , the fentiments , and the language ; and have fhewn that he excels , in general , under each of these heads . I hope that I have made feveral discoveries which may appear new , even to those who are verfed in ...
... fable , the characters , the fentiments , and the language ; and have fhewn that he excels , in general , under each of these heads . I hope that I have made feveral discoveries which may appear new , even to those who are verfed in ...
Page 172
... fable . A drop of water fell out of a cloud into the fea , and finding itself loft in fuch an immenfity of fluid mat- ter , broke out into the following reflexion : " Alas ! " What an infignificant creature am I in this prodigious ...
... fable . A drop of water fell out of a cloud into the fea , and finding itself loft in fuch an immenfity of fluid mat- ter , broke out into the following reflexion : " Alas ! " What an infignificant creature am I in this prodigious ...
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