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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... maid in the fame houfe . He- fiod , though entirely ignorant of the fact , was ma- licioully accufed , as an accomplice , to her brothers , Fulvius Urfinus , and with a head , a trunk without a head , and a gem , Boiffard , in his ...
... maid in the fame houfe . He- fiod , though entirely ignorant of the fact , was ma- licioully accufed , as an accomplice , to her brothers , Fulvius Urfinus , and with a head , a trunk without a head , and a gem , Boiffard , in his ...
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... maid , Bids her the fecrets of the loom impart , To caft a curious thread with happy art . And golden Venus was to teach the fair , The wiles of love , and to improve her air , And then , in awful majefty , to fhed A thoufand graceful ...
... maid , Bids her the fecrets of the loom impart , To caft a curious thread with happy art . And golden Venus was to teach the fair , The wiles of love , and to improve her air , And then , in awful majefty , to fhed A thoufand graceful ...
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... maid , deriv'd from Jove , Renown'd , and reverenc'd by the gods above , When mortals violate her facred laws , When judges hear the bribe , and not the caufe , Ciofe by her parent god behold her stand , And urge the punishment their ...
... maid , deriv'd from Jove , Renown'd , and reverenc'd by the gods above , When mortals violate her facred laws , When judges hear the bribe , and not the caufe , Ciofe by her parent god behold her stand , And urge the punishment their ...
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... maid to guard your herds , and then a bride ; The house be furnish'd as thy need demands , 40 Nor want to borrow from a neighbour's hands . While to fupport your wants abroad you roam , Time glides away , and work ftands ftill at home ...
... maid to guard your herds , and then a bride ; The house be furnish'd as thy need demands , 40 Nor want to borrow from a neighbour's hands . While to fupport your wants abroad you roam , Time glides away , and work ftands ftill at home ...
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... maid , Free and fecure , of storms nor winds afraid , Lives , nurtur'd chafte beneath her mother's eye , Ceturt , unfully'd , by the winter's sky ; Or now to bathe her lovely limbs the goes , Now round the fair the fragrant ointment ...
... maid , Free and fecure , of storms nor winds afraid , Lives , nurtur'd chafte beneath her mother's eye , Ceturt , unfully'd , by the winter's sky ; Or now to bathe her lovely limbs the goes , Now round the fair the fragrant ointment ...
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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