The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of examples [compiled by J. Newbery, revised by O. Goldsmith].1762 |
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... Georgics 169 ibid . 170 173 The Prodigies fuppofed to have preceded the death of Cafar The manner of grafting Trees 174 175 Of tranfplanting Trees 176 A beautiful defcription of Italy 177 The Pleafures of Rural Life ibid . Of training ...
... Georgics 169 ibid . 170 173 The Prodigies fuppofed to have preceded the death of Cafar The manner of grafting Trees 174 175 Of tranfplanting Trees 176 A beautiful defcription of Italy 177 The Pleafures of Rural Life ibid . Of training ...
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... Georgics for the mediate , and the Eneid for the fublime . Though in many parts of each , examples may be seen of them all ; for there are few poems of any merit that can be wrote in the plain or mediate ftyle only , with- out partaking ...
... Georgics for the mediate , and the Eneid for the fublime . Though in many parts of each , examples may be seen of them all ; for there are few poems of any merit that can be wrote in the plain or mediate ftyle only , with- out partaking ...
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... Georgics , Horace's Art of Poetry , the duke of Buckinghamshire's Efay , Roscommon on tranflated Verfe , Pope's Effay on Man , and his Efay on Criticism , are fo effentially different and diftinct from any of the ufual claffes , that ...
... Georgics , Horace's Art of Poetry , the duke of Buckinghamshire's Efay , Roscommon on tranflated Verfe , Pope's Effay on Man , and his Efay on Criticism , are fo effentially different and diftinct from any of the ufual claffes , that ...
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... Georgics is wrought up with wonderful art , and decorated with all the flowers of poetry . : In the first of the four books , he propofes the general defign of each Georgic , and after a folemn invocation of all the heathen deities ...
... Georgics is wrought up with wonderful art , and decorated with all the flowers of poetry . : In the first of the four books , he propofes the general defign of each Georgic , and after a folemn invocation of all the heathen deities ...
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... Georgics observes , a sort of ruftic majesty about him , and feems like a Roman dictator at the plough tail . The ... Georgic he points out the fituation moft proper for bees ; tells us when they begin to gather honey , directs how to ...
... Georgics observes , a sort of ruftic majesty about him , and feems like a Roman dictator at the plough tail . The ... Georgic he points out the fituation moft proper for bees ; tells us when they begin to gather honey , directs how to ...
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