LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... occasion the Virgilian lots * , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some Consulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgilianæ , is a method of Divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circumstances ...
... occasion the Virgilian lots * , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some Consulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgilianæ , is a method of Divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circumstances ...
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... occasion " of giving notice of the posture of things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London he was seized by some messengers of the usurping powers , who were sent out in quest of another man ; and heing examined Falkland ...
... occasion " of giving notice of the posture of things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London he was seized by some messengers of the usurping powers , who were sent out in quest of another man ; and heing examined Falkland ...
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... occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men , and ...
... occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men , and ...
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Samuel Johnson. rough the spectacles of books ; and on most occasions calls learning to his assis- tance . The garden ... occasion required . Thus comparing the shield of Satan to the orb of the Moon , he crouds the imagination with the ...
Samuel Johnson. rough the spectacles of books ; and on most occasions calls learning to his assis- tance . The garden ... occasion required . Thus comparing the shield of Satan to the orb of the Moon , he crouds the imagination with the ...
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... occasion ; sublimity is the general and prevailing quality in this poem ; sublimity variously modified , sometimes descriptive , sometimes argumentative . The defects and faults of Paradise Lost , for faults and defects every work of ...
... occasion ; sublimity is the general and prevailing quality in this poem ; sublimity variously modified , sometimes descriptive , sometimes argumentative . The defects and faults of Paradise Lost , for faults and defects every work of ...
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