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 5
... muft carry no fmall weight with it , when we con- fider it as delivered down to us by the oldest Greek hiftorian we have . 7. From bis writings . The pious exclamation against the vices of his own times , in the beginning of the iran ...
... muft carry no fmall weight with it , when we con- fider it as delivered down to us by the oldest Greek hiftorian we have . 7. From bis writings . The pious exclamation against the vices of his own times , in the beginning of the iran ...
Page 7
... muft , with great deference to the fuperior knowledge of that learned critic , prefer the common reading primam cor- pus : Dr. Bentley's chief objection to this reading is founded on making primum to be underflood first in point of time ...
... muft , with great deference to the fuperior knowledge of that learned critic , prefer the common reading primam cor- pus : Dr. Bentley's chief objection to this reading is founded on making primum to be underflood first in point of time ...
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... muft obferve , that this does not coincide with his account in the Theogony , where , after Saturn's re- venge on his father , the Furies , Contention , and all the confequences of it , immediately appear Ver . 173. The notion of ...
... muft obferve , that this does not coincide with his account in the Theogony , where , after Saturn's re- venge on his father , the Furies , Contention , and all the confequences of it , immediately appear Ver . 173. The notion of ...
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... muft proceed from a generous foul , from a knowledge of the world , and a juft and prudent way of thinking . He like- wife fhows , that to be honest , to be liberal , is not only to indulge a noble passion , but to be friends to ...
... muft proceed from a generous foul , from a knowledge of the world , and a juft and prudent way of thinking . He like- wife fhows , that to be honest , to be liberal , is not only to indulge a noble passion , but to be friends to ...
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... muft beg leave to diffent from that great writer . The reprefentation of their comfortable condition ferves to enliven the pic- ture of the distress of the other creatures , who are more exposed to the inclemency of the weather . All ...
... muft beg leave to diffent from that great writer . The reprefentation of their comfortable condition ferves to enliven the pic- ture of the distress of the other creatures , who are more exposed to the inclemency of the weather . All ...
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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