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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... fhould be among all of the fame profeflion , that they may be filled with envy , and contention . " Plato certainly mif- takes the poet in this , when he imagines that He- fiod thinks it abfolutely neceffary for the better government of ...
... fhould be among all of the fame profeflion , that they may be filled with envy , and contention . " Plato certainly mif- takes the poet in this , when he imagines that He- fiod thinks it abfolutely neceffary for the better government of ...
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... fhould fuffer for the crimes of their rulers , which they diflike and con- demn , where is the juftice of it ? And he quotes the well - known axiom of Horace , " Delirant re- ges , plectuntur achivi , " and refers us to a fore- going ...
... fhould fuffer for the crimes of their rulers , which they diflike and con- demn , where is the juftice of it ? And he quotes the well - known axiom of Horace , " Delirant re- ges , plectuntur achivi , " and refers us to a fore- going ...
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... fhould fall . Tzetz Ver . 114. Hefiod keeps up an air of piety quite through his poem , which , as Mr. Addifon obferves in his Effay on the Georgic , should be always maintained . Tzetzes tells us Ztus xeovies is Sac- chus , and the ...
... fhould fall . Tzetz Ver . 114. Hefiod keeps up an air of piety quite through his poem , which , as Mr. Addifon obferves in his Effay on the Georgic , should be always maintained . Tzetzes tells us Ztus xeovies is Sac- chus , and the ...
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... fhould hurt our eyes . I know not whether these and the following precepts fa- vour most of the age of the poet , or of the poet's old age . BOOK III * . THE ARGUMENT . THE poet here diftinguishes holidays from others , and what are ...
... fhould hurt our eyes . I know not whether these and the following precepts fa- vour most of the age of the poet , or of the poet's old age . BOOK III * . THE ARGUMENT . THE poet here diftinguishes holidays from others , and what are ...
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... fhould the partner of his bofom prove 900 A chafte and prudent matron worthy love ; Yet he would find this chafte , this prudent wife The hapless author of a checquer'd life : But should he , wretched man , a nymph embrace , A ftubborn ...
... fhould the partner of his bofom prove 900 A chafte and prudent matron worthy love ; Yet he would find this chafte , this prudent wife The hapless author of a checquer'd life : But should he , wretched man , a nymph embrace , A ftubborn ...
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Æneid afferts Amycus Anacreon ancient Argo atoms beauty becauſe Befides body breaſt called caufe charms Colchian compofed Daphnis defcend defcribed defcription divine earth Eclogues Epicurus EPIGRAM ev'ry eyes facred fafe faid fair fame fate fays fecond feeds feems fenfe fhall fhore fhould fhow fignifies fince fing fire firft firſt flain flame foft fome fong foon foul fpread fpring ftill ftreams fubject fuch fuppofed fweet Georgic gods Greek heaven Hefiod Hercules heroes himſelf Homer honour Idyllium Iliad Jafon Jove Jupiter laft lefs likewife Lucretius maid mind moft moſt mufes muft muſt nature nymphs o'er obferves Ovid paffage paftoral Phrixus plain pleaſure Plutarch poem poet pow'r prefent reafon reft rife rofe ſays thee thefe themſelves Theocritus Theogony theſe things thofe thoſe thou Tiphys tranflation Tzetzes uſed Venus verfes verſes Virgil void whofe wind words καὶ