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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Page 29
... feems , as I obferved before , as if he defigned to prevent miftakes , and that Boeotia and Euboea are both islands , we can- not in the leaft difpute his being a Bastian born . Ver . 365. The honour here paid to poetry , is very great ...
... feems , as I obferved before , as if he defigned to prevent miftakes , and that Boeotia and Euboea are both islands , we can- not in the leaft difpute his being a Bastian born . Ver . 365. The honour here paid to poetry , is very great ...
Page 54
... feems invented to fhow the prudence required in waging war ; in which three weighty precepts are to be confidered as from the counfel of Pallas . Firft , in the enlarging dominions , the occafion , facility , and profits of a war , are ...
... feems invented to fhow the prudence required in waging war ; in which three weighty precepts are to be confidered as from the counfel of Pallas . Firft , in the enlarging dominions , the occafion , facility , and profits of a war , are ...
Page 55
... feems the meft reasonable , of this monfter . After deriving the name from Spbiza which is a murderer , he tells us in Sphinx is fhadowed a gang of robbers which lurked in the cavities of a mountain ; fhe is faid to have had the face ...
... feems the meft reasonable , of this monfter . After deriving the name from Spbiza which is a murderer , he tells us in Sphinx is fhadowed a gang of robbers which lurked in the cavities of a mountain ; fhe is faid to have had the face ...
Page 62
... feems to have learned the ftorics of Bacchus from Cadmus and other Tyrians , which came with him from Phenicia to the country now called Boeotia he must therefore mean that Hefiod and Homer were the first who gave the gods a poetical ...
... feems to have learned the ftorics of Bacchus from Cadmus and other Tyrians , which came with him from Phenicia to the country now called Boeotia he must therefore mean that Hefiod and Homer were the first who gave the gods a poetical ...
Page 73
... feems more folicitous , in an affected quaintnefs of flyle , to exhibit a display of his own learning , than fludious , by the investigation of truth , to give information to his readers : his thoughts lie loofe and unconnected , and ...
... feems more folicitous , in an affected quaintnefs of flyle , to exhibit a display of his own learning , than fludious , by the investigation of truth , to give information to his readers : his thoughts lie loofe and unconnected , and ...
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