The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... Virgil , and other poets , where one deity is represented as raising a storm , and another as laying it ? Were we only to consider the sublime in VOL . VII . 1 Ps . cvii . 23 , et seqq . F N ° 489. SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 20 , 1712 . 489 ...
... Virgil , and other poets , where one deity is represented as raising a storm , and another as laying it ? Were we only to consider the sublime in VOL . VII . 1 Ps . cvii . 23 , et seqq . F N ° 489. SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 20 , 1712 . 489 ...
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... Virgil , and other poets , where one deity is represented as raising a storm , and another as laying it ? Were we only to consider the sublime in VOL . VII . 1 Ps . cvii . 23 , et seqq . F this piece of poetry , what can be nobler than ...
... Virgil , and other poets , where one deity is represented as raising a storm , and another as laying it ? Were we only to consider the sublime in VOL . VII . 1 Ps . cvii . 23 , et seqq . F this piece of poetry , what can be nobler than ...
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... Virgil to divert me till I should be more dis- posed to rest . He is the author whom I always choose on such occasions ; no one writing in so divine , so harmonious , nor so equal a strain , which leaves the mind composed and softened ...
... Virgil to divert me till I should be more dis- posed to rest . He is the author whom I always choose on such occasions ; no one writing in so divine , so harmonious , nor so equal a strain , which leaves the mind composed and softened ...
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