The British Essayists: TatlerNichols and Son, 1817 |
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... poets . As I was sitting after dinner in my elbow - chair , I took up Homer , and dipped into that famous speech of Achilles to Priam * , in which he tells him , that Jupiter has by him two great vessels , the one filled with blessings ...
... poets . As I was sitting after dinner in my elbow - chair , I took up Homer , and dipped into that famous speech of Achilles to Priam * , in which he tells him , that Jupiter has by him two great vessels , the one filled with blessings ...
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... poet whom I men- tioned in my last paper , and whom it is very difficult to lay aside when one is engaged in the reading of him . And this I particularly design for the use of several of my fair correspondents , who in their letters ...
... poet whom I men- tioned in my last paper , and whom it is very difficult to lay aside when one is engaged in the reading of him . And this I particularly design for the use of several of my fair correspondents , who in their letters ...
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... poet describes at length , and which the goddess chose out as the most proper to set off her person to the best advantage . In the next place , she made a visit to Venus , the deity who presides over love , and begged of her , as a ...
... poet describes at length , and which the goddess chose out as the most proper to set off her person to the best advantage . In the next place , she made a visit to Venus , the deity who presides over love , and begged of her , as a ...
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... poet then represents him in so great an ardour , that , without going up to the house which had been built by the hands of Vulcan according to Juno's direction , he threw a golden cloud over their heads as they sat upon the top of mount ...
... poet then represents him in so great an ardour , that , without going up to the house which had been built by the hands of Vulcan according to Juno's direction , he threw a golden cloud over their heads as they sat upon the top of mount ...
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... poet scarce introduces a single person , who doth not suggest some useful precept to his reader , and designs his description of the dead for the amendment of the living . Ulysses , after having made a very plenteous sa- crifice , sat ...
... poet scarce introduces a single person , who doth not suggest some useful precept to his reader , and designs his description of the dead for the amendment of the living . Ulysses , after having made a very plenteous sa- crifice , sat ...
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