A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Cook's Hesiod. Fawke's Theocritus. Anacreon. Bion. Moschus. Sappho. Musaeus & Apollonius Rhodius. The Rape of Helen. Creech's Lucretius and Grainger's TibullusJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1795 |
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... fays , was taken nine hun- dred and four years before Chrift , and Heliod , he fays , flourished eight hundred and feventy . This hows Sir Ifaac Newton's opinion of the age of Heliod in regard to his vicinity to Homer : his Neucorus ...
... fays , was taken nine hun- dred and four years before Chrift , and Heliod , he fays , flourished eight hundred and feventy . This hows Sir Ifaac Newton's opinion of the age of Heliod in regard to his vicinity to Homer : his Neucorus ...
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... fays he , that Pythagoras took it for his , who feigned he faw the foul of our poet in hell chained to a brazen pilar ; a punishment inflicted upon him for the ftories which he invented of the gods . This doubt- lefs is the poem that ...
... fays he , that Pythagoras took it for his , who feigned he faw the foul of our poet in hell chained to a brazen pilar ; a punishment inflicted upon him for the ftories which he invented of the gods . This doubt- lefs is the poem that ...
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... fays Virgil , rogavit quos colles Bacchus amaret , fays the other of our poet , he inquired after what hills Bacchus loved . I should not have ufed Mr. Creech and Mr. Kennet with fo much freedom as I have , had not the tranflation of ...
... fays Virgil , rogavit quos colles Bacchus amaret , fays the other of our poet , he inquired after what hills Bacchus loved . I should not have ufed Mr. Creech and Mr. Kennet with fo much freedom as I have , had not the tranflation of ...
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... fays , a whole city is often defroyed for the guilt of a fingle perfon : but it is not obvious to me that this is the poet's meaning . Let us examine the fentiment with the context , and that will beft de- termine us in the meaning here ...
... fays , a whole city is often defroyed for the guilt of a fingle perfon : but it is not obvious to me that this is the poet's meaning . Let us examine the fentiment with the context , and that will beft de- termine us in the meaning here ...
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... fays he , is the infer- After this he informs his countrymen in their feveral duties at home and in the fields . For the poetical and allegorical meaning of the Pleiades , I fhall use the words of the Scholiaft on this paffage Preïone ...
... fays he , is the infer- After this he informs his countrymen in their feveral duties at home and in the fields . For the poetical and allegorical meaning of the Pleiades , I fhall use the words of the Scholiaft on this paffage Preïone ...
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