The Spectator, Volume 8William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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Page 50
... Virgil , wherein that deity is introduced as weighing the fates of Turnus and Eneas . I then considered how the same way of thinking prevailed in the eastern parts of the world , as in those noble passa- ges of scripture , wherein we ...
... Virgil , wherein that deity is introduced as weighing the fates of Turnus and Eneas . I then considered how the same way of thinking prevailed in the eastern parts of the world , as in those noble passa- ges of scripture , wherein we ...
Page 64
... Eneas , the hero of Virgil , is lost in the wood , and a perfect stranger in the place on which he is landed , he is accosted by a lady in an habit for the chace . She inquires of him , whether he has 64 No. 466 . THE SPECTATOR .
... Eneas , the hero of Virgil , is lost in the wood , and a perfect stranger in the place on which he is landed , he is accosted by a lady in an habit for the chace . She inquires of him , whether he has 64 No. 466 . THE SPECTATOR .
Page 96
... Virgil . " As the sight has polished the world , so does it supply us with the most grateful and lasting pleasure . Let love , let friendship , paternal affection , filial piety , and conjugal duty , declare the joys the sight bestows ...
... Virgil . " As the sight has polished the world , so does it supply us with the most grateful and lasting pleasure . Let love , let friendship , paternal affection , filial piety , and conjugal duty , declare the joys the sight bestows ...
Page 177
... 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 this piece of poetry , what can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being ...
... 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 this piece of poetry , what can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being ...
Page 264
... Virgil , Horace , Tully , Seneca , Plutarch , or any of the rest ; whom , I dare say , this worthy citizen will hold to be indeed ingenious , but unprofitable , writers . But to the letter . 66 " SIR , MR . WILLIAM SPECTATOR ...
... Virgil , Horace , Tully , Seneca , Plutarch , or any of the rest ; whom , I dare say , this worthy citizen will hold to be indeed ingenious , but unprofitable , writers . But to the letter . 66 " SIR , MR . WILLIAM SPECTATOR ...
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