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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... Some circumftances of his life from bis writings . Having thus far agreed to his parents , his coun- try , and the time in which he rose , our next buti- nels is to trace him in fuch of his actions as are difcoverable ; and here we have ...
... Some circumftances of his life from bis writings . Having thus far agreed to his parents , his coun- try , and the time in which he rose , our next buti- nels is to trace him in fuch of his actions as are difcoverable ; and here we have ...
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... Some make it two poems ; the firft they call Egy , works , and the fecond Hupa , days ; others call the first Eyga nas Husqai , works and days , and the fecond Ilusgas only , which part confifts of but fixty - four lines where I mention ...
... Some make it two poems ; the firft they call Egy , works , and the fecond Hupa , days ; others call the first Eyga nas Husqai , works and days , and the fecond Ilusgas only , which part confifts of but fixty - four lines where I mention ...
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... Some at the gates of Thebes , and fome at Troy . Thefe , for the brothers fell , detefted strife ! For beauty those , the lovely Grecian wife ! To thefe does Jove a second life ordain , Some happy foil far in the diftant main , Where ...
... Some at the gates of Thebes , and fome at Troy . Thefe , for the brothers fell , detefted strife ! For beauty those , the lovely Grecian wife ! To thefe does Jove a second life ordain , Some happy foil far in the diftant main , Where ...
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... Some think the ftory of Pandora , and the account we have from Mofes of the fall of man , were took from the fame tradition . The curfe , indeed , pro- nounced against Adam , in the third chapter of Genefis , is the fame with this in ...
... Some think the ftory of Pandora , and the account we have from Mofes of the fall of man , were took from the fame tradition . The curfe , indeed , pro- nounced against Adam , in the third chapter of Genefis , is the fame with this in ...
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... Some to the thicket of the foreit flock And fome , for fhelter , feck the hollow rock . A winter garment now demands your care , To guard the body from th ' inclement air ; Soft be the inward veft , he ontward frong , And large to wrap ...
... Some to the thicket of the foreit flock And fome , for fhelter , feck the hollow rock . A winter garment now demands your care , To guard the body from th ' inclement air ; Soft be the inward veft , he ontward frong , And large to wrap ...
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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