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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... fome melancholy theme , and view the poet in his liv- fragments p.eferved by Pau'anias , Plutarch , Poly - ing writings ; let us read him ourselves , and incite bius , & c . We are told that our poet compofed fome other works , of which ...
... fome melancholy theme , and view the poet in his liv- fragments p.eferved by Pau'anias , Plutarch , Poly - ing writings ; let us read him ourselves , and incite bius , & c . We are told that our poet compofed fome other works , of which ...
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... fome were confecrated to the fervice of religion ; fome ufed as feats , fome as tables , and fome as orna- ments ; they were fupported on three feet , with handles to their fides . Ver . 383. Neptune is called Earthshaker , be- caufe ...
... fome were confecrated to the fervice of religion ; fome ufed as feats , fome as tables , and fome as orna- ments ; they were fupported on three feet , with handles to their fides . Ver . 383. Neptune is called Earthshaker , be- caufe ...
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... fome of the old fcholiafts and commentators had thorough- ly confidered this , they would not have had so ma- ny ... fome of real perfons , and fome only poetical , as Theniis and Mnemofyne which are justice and memory . The fame critic ...
... fome of the old fcholiafts and commentators had thorough- ly confidered this , they would not have had so ma- ny ... fome of real perfons , and fome only poetical , as Theniis and Mnemofyne which are justice and memory . The fame critic ...
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... fome paffages , and in fome particulars may poffibly have had a regard to fome relations , fabulous or real , of antiquity ; but his main design seems to have been that of re- " After the improvement of arts and the human understanding ...
... fome paffages , and in fome particulars may poffibly have had a regard to fome relations , fabulous or real , of antiquity ; but his main design seems to have been that of re- " After the improvement of arts and the human understanding ...
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... fome notes on Theocritus by Ifaac Ca- faubon , written in the margin of Henry Stephens's Poetæ Græci ; likewife manufcript notes in the edition of Commelin , printed in quarto ; and alfo fome notes by Thomas Stanley , the author of the ...
... fome notes on Theocritus by Ifaac Ca- faubon , written in the margin of Henry Stephens's Poetæ Græci ; likewife manufcript notes in the edition of Commelin , printed in quarto ; and alfo fome notes by Thomas Stanley , the author of the ...
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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