Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1776 |
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... mankind , which they effected in part , and would have completed , had not Omnipotence itself interpofed . The principal ac- tors are Man in his greatest perfection , and Woman in her highest beauty . Their enemies are the fallen Angels ...
... mankind , which they effected in part , and would have completed , had not Omnipotence itself interpofed . The principal ac- tors are Man in his greatest perfection , and Woman in her highest beauty . Their enemies are the fallen Angels ...
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... mankind . The part of Ulyffes in Homer's Odyffey is very much admired by Aristotle , as per- plexing that fable with very agreeable plots and in- tricacies , not only by the many adventures in his voyage , and the fubtlety of his ...
... mankind . The part of Ulyffes in Homer's Odyffey is very much admired by Aristotle , as per- plexing that fable with very agreeable plots and in- tricacies , not only by the many adventures in his voyage , and the fubtlety of his ...
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... mankind , who are defcended from them ; and none but a poet of the most unbounded invention , and the most exquisite judgment , could have filled their converfation and behaviour with fo many apt circumstances during their state of ...
... mankind , who are defcended from them ; and none but a poet of the most unbounded invention , and the most exquisite judgment , could have filled their converfation and behaviour with fo many apt circumstances during their state of ...
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... mankind being very apt to think that every thing which is laughed at with any mix- ture of wit is ridiculous in itself . Such a mirth as this is always unfeasonable in a critic , as it rather prejudices the reader than convin- ces him ...
... mankind being very apt to think that every thing which is laughed at with any mix- ture of wit is ridiculous in itself . Such a mirth as this is always unfeasonable in a critic , as it rather prejudices the reader than convin- ces him ...
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... mankind meets with upon his return to the affembly of infernal spi- rits , as it is described in a beautiful passage of the Tenth Book ; and likewise by the vision wherein Adam , at the close of the Poem , fees his offspring triumphing ...
... mankind meets with upon his return to the affembly of infernal spi- rits , as it is described in a beautiful passage of the Tenth Book ; and likewise by the vision wherein Adam , at the close of the Poem , fees his offspring triumphing ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Æneid againſt alſo angels appear'd arm'd arms beast becauſe behold beſt bright call'd cherubim cloud creatures dark darkneſs death deep delight divine dreadful dwell earth eternal evil eyes Fable faid fair fame Father fhall fight fince fire firſt fome fons foon foul fruit fuch gate glory gods grace hand happy hast hath Heav'n heav'nly Hell hill himſelf Iliad itſelf JOHN MILTON King laſt lefs leſs light live loft mankind Milton moſt muſt night o'er obferved ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST perfons pleas'd poem poet praiſe rais'd reign reply'd return'd round Satan seem'd serpent ſeveral ſhall ſhape ſhould spake Spi'rit ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtood ſuch ſweet taſte thee thence theſe thine things thoſe thou thoughts throne tree turn'd uſe vex'd Virgil wand'ring whence whofe whoſe wings worſe
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