The Works of the English Poets, Volume 19J. Rivington, 1779 - 366 pages |
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Page 151
... Rome , had the education of his patron's children committed to him . Which truft he discharged fo much to the fatisfaction of his mafter , that he gave him his liberty . Andronicus , thus become a freeman of Rome , added to his own name ...
... Rome , had the education of his patron's children committed to him . Which truft he discharged fo much to the fatisfaction of his mafter , that he gave him his liberty . Andronicus , thus become a freeman of Rome , added to his own name ...
Page 152
... Rome , as Tully , from the com- mentaries of Atticus , has affured us : it was after the end of the first Punic war , the year before Ennius was born . Dacier has not carried the matter altoge- ther thus far ; he only fays , that one ...
... Rome , as Tully , from the com- mentaries of Atticus , has affured us : it was after the end of the first Punic war , the year before Ennius was born . Dacier has not carried the matter altoge- ther thus far ; he only fays , that one ...
Page 175
... Rome ; and rot only a great philofopher , but a poet himself ; and in probability a coadjutor of Perfius . That , as for Juvenal , he was long a declaimer , came late to poetry , and has not been much converfant in philofophy . It is ...
... Rome ; and rot only a great philofopher , but a poet himself ; and in probability a coadjutor of Perfius . That , as for Juvenal , he was long a declaimer , came late to poetry , and has not been much converfant in philofophy . It is ...
Page 189
... Rome . But Auguftus was the firft , who reftored that inter- mitted law by the words , under colour of 66 : : " that law , " he infinuates that Auguftus caused it to be executed , on pretence of thofe libels , which were written by ...
... Rome . But Auguftus was the firft , who reftored that inter- mitted law by the words , under colour of 66 : : " that law , " he infinuates that Auguftus caused it to be executed , on pretence of thofe libels , which were written by ...
Page 201
... Rome , in the " ab urbe condita cccccXIV . " year I have fince defired my learned friend , Mr. Maidwell , to compute the difference of times , betwixt Aristophanes and Li- vius Andronicus ; and he affures me from the best : chronologers ...
... Rome , in the " ab urbe condita cccccXIV . " year I have fince defired my learned friend , Mr. Maidwell , to compute the difference of times , betwixt Aristophanes and Li- vius Andronicus ; and he affures me from the best : chronologers ...
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