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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... thee my tuneful accents will I raise , And treat of arts disclos'd in ancient days , Once more unlock for thee the facred fpring , And old Afcræan verfe in Roman cities fing . DRYDEN . He begins the Georgic with an explanation of the ...
... thee my tuneful accents will I raise , And treat of arts disclos'd in ancient days , Once more unlock for thee the facred fpring , And old Afcræan verfe in Roman cities fing . DRYDEN . He begins the Georgic with an explanation of the ...
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... thee to flourish , he will fpare no pains ; For lo ! the rich virtue and glory gains . 410 Strictly obferve the wholesome rules I give , And , blefs'd in all , thou like a god fhalt live . Ne'er to thy neighbour's goods extend thy cares ...
... thee to flourish , he will fpare no pains ; For lo ! the rich virtue and glory gains . 410 Strictly obferve the wholesome rules I give , And , blefs'd in all , thou like a god fhalt live . Ne'er to thy neighbour's goods extend thy cares ...
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... thee poor , 20 A mean dependant on another's ftore . Though , foolish Perfes , bending to thy pray'rs , I lately heard thy plaints , and eas'd thy cares , On me no longer for fupplies depend , For I no more fhall give , no more shall ...
... thee poor , 20 A mean dependant on another's ftore . Though , foolish Perfes , bending to thy pray'rs , I lately heard thy plaints , and eas'd thy cares , On me no longer for fupplies depend , For I no more fhall give , no more shall ...
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... thee long ; Old age veratious fhall o'ertake thee foon ; There is the ev'n of life before the noon . Obferve in all you do , and all you say , Regard to the immortal gods to pay . ; 450 First in your friendship let your brother stand ...
... thee long ; Old age veratious fhall o'ertake thee foon ; There is the ev'n of life before the noon . Obferve in all you do , and all you say , Regard to the immortal gods to pay . ; 450 First in your friendship let your brother stand ...
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... thee blefs'd , In thy lofty fhady neft , Happy , merry , as a king , Sipping dew , you fip and fing . We have a fuller defcription of this creature in the fhield of Hercules : The feafon when the grafhopper begun To welcome with his ...
... thee blefs'd , In thy lofty fhady neft , Happy , merry , as a king , Sipping dew , you fip and fing . We have a fuller defcription of this creature in the fhield of Hercules : The feafon when the grafhopper begun To welcome with his ...
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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