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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... thefe , together with the contention betwixt thefe two great poets , are regarded as no other than fables ; and Barnes , who had certainly read as much on this head as any man , and who seems , by fome expreflions , willing to believe ...
... thefe , together with the contention betwixt thefe two great poets , are regarded as no other than fables ; and Barnes , who had certainly read as much on this head as any man , and who seems , by fome expreflions , willing to believe ...
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... thefe two , but has not one con- vincing argument in its favour by which we may pofitively declare it a genuine work of Hefiod . We have great reason to believe those two poems only were remaining in the reign of Auguftus . Manilius ...
... thefe two , but has not one con- vincing argument in its favour by which we may pofitively declare it a genuine work of Hefiod . We have great reason to believe those two poems only were remaining in the reign of Auguftus . Manilius ...
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... thefe lines is , " that those fine things which the " Latin poet recounts about the birth of the gods , " and the making the world , are not fo nearly al- " lied to any paffage in the prefent Theogony to justify the allufion . " An ...
... thefe lines is , " that those fine things which the " Latin poet recounts about the birth of the gods , " and the making the world , are not fo nearly al- " lied to any paffage in the prefent Theogony to justify the allufion . " An ...
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... Thefe doctrines , Perfes , treasure in thy heart , And never from the paths of justice part : Never by brutal violence be fway'd ; But be the will of Jove in thefe obey'd . 371 380 In these the brute creation men exceed , They , void of ...
... Thefe doctrines , Perfes , treasure in thy heart , And never from the paths of justice part : Never by brutal violence be fway'd ; But be the will of Jove in thefe obey'd . 371 380 In these the brute creation men exceed , They , void of ...
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... Thefe forges , with the λxas , were places always open to poor people , where they ufed to fleep . Pro- clus , in his remarks on this verfe , fays , at one time in Athens were three hundred and fixty of these public places . Owns is the ...
... Thefe forges , with the λxas , were places always open to poor people , where they ufed to fleep . Pro- clus , in his remarks on this verfe , fays , at one time in Athens were three hundred and fixty of these public places . Owns is 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