The Spectator: Religious, Moral, Humorous, Satirical, and Critical Essays, 1. köideG. A. Leavitt, 1860 |
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... Hesiod , or the Rise of Women - His anacreon- tic , Gay Bacchus , & c . a translation from the Latin , which praises wine as exhilarating wit , and inflaming love.- His Fairy Tale , a fine allegory , exhibits the little value of ...
... Hesiod , or the Rise of Women - His anacreon- tic , Gay Bacchus , & c . a translation from the Latin , which praises wine as exhilarating wit , and inflaming love.- His Fairy Tale , a fine allegory , exhibits the little value of ...
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... Hesiod , which is almost word for word the same with his third line in the following passage : Nor think , though men were none , That Heav'n would want spectators , God want praise · Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth ...
... Hesiod , which is almost word for word the same with his third line in the following passage : Nor think , though men were none , That Heav'n would want spectators , God want praise · Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth ...
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... Hesiod intimate to us how this art should be applied , when they represent the Muses as surrounding Jupiter , and warbling their hymns about his throne . I might show , from innumerable passages in ancient writers , not only that vocal ...
... Hesiod intimate to us how this art should be applied , when they represent the Muses as surrounding Jupiter , and warbling their hymns about his throne . I might show , from innumerable passages in ancient writers , not only that vocal ...
Contents
PREFACE Editor | 41 |
On Laughter Addison | 52 |
The Paradise of the American Indians The Same | 61 |
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