 I cannot conclude this book upon the creation without mentioning a poem which has lately appeared under that title.* The work was undertaken with so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one...  Library of Universal Knowledge - Page 331879Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 600 pages
...good an intention, and is executed with so, great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased * Creation, a philosophical poem; demonstrating the existence and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all the charms of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all the charms of... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased * Creation, a philosophical poem ; demonstrating the existence and... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 378 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all the charms of... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all the charms of... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all * Creation, a... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pages
...with so gooa an intention, and executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy, enlivened with all the charms of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 406 pages
...by Dryden and Pope. But Addison has said of his philosophical poem, that it is to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse; and Johnson, who has properly included it in his Collection of the Poets, says of it, " it wants neither... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pages
...so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all the charms of... | |
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