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... light ' I confider writers in the fame view this fage aftro- loger does the heavenly bodies . Some of them are ftars that scatter light as others do darkness . I could mention feveral authors who are tenebrificous ftars of the first ...
... light ' I confider writers in the fame view this fage aftro- loger does the heavenly bodies . Some of them are ftars that scatter light as others do darkness . I could mention feveral authors who are tenebrificous ftars of the first ...
Page 126
... light of the fun , and have been ever fince covering myfelf with • woods and forefts . These threefcore and ten years • have I bewailed the lofs of thee on the tops of • mount Tirzah , and foothed my melancholy among a thousand gloomy ...
... light of the fun , and have been ever fince covering myfelf with • woods and forefts . These threefcore and ten years • have I bewailed the lofs of thee on the tops of • mount Tirzah , and foothed my melancholy among a thousand gloomy ...
Page 136
... light . The heart you are exa- mining , fays my companion , belongs to Will Wor- thy . He has indeed a most noble foul , and is pof- feffed of a thoufand good qualities . The speck which you difcover is Vanity . Here , fays the angel ...
... light . The heart you are exa- mining , fays my companion , belongs to Will Wor- thy . He has indeed a most noble foul , and is pof- feffed of a thoufand good qualities . The speck which you difcover is Vanity . Here , fays the angel ...
Page 144
... light , we fhall hardly think it too violent . • Eneas , when he built his fleet in order to fail for Italy , was obliged to cut down the grove on ' mount " mount Ida , which , however , he durft 144 THE SPECTATOR . No. 589 .
... light , we fhall hardly think it too violent . • Eneas , when he built his fleet in order to fail for Italy , was obliged to cut down the grove on ' mount " mount Ida , which , however , he durft 144 THE SPECTATOR . No. 589 .
Page 145
... light that fing'd the heav'ns , and foot along : Then from a cloud , fring'd round with golden fires , Were timbrels heard , and Berecynthian quires : And last a voice , with more than mortal founds , Both hofts in arms oppos'd , with ...
... light that fing'd the heav'ns , and foot along : Then from a cloud , fring'd round with golden fires , Were timbrels heard , and Berecynthian quires : And last a voice , with more than mortal founds , Both hofts in arms oppos'd , with ...
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