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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Page 5
... beginning of the iran age , and the manner in which the defcription of that age is wrote , moft of the verbs being in the future tenfe , give us room to imagine he lived when the world had but just departed from their primitive virtue ...
... beginning of the iran age , and the manner in which the defcription of that age is wrote , moft of the verbs being in the future tenfe , give us room to imagine he lived when the world had but just departed from their primitive virtue ...
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... beginning of his Art of Love , alludes to that paffage of the mufes appearing to him ; and Hefiod himself , in the fecond book of his Works and Days , has an allufion to these verses . 3. The Works and Days ; The Works and Days is the ...
... beginning of his Art of Love , alludes to that paffage of the mufes appearing to him ; and Hefiod himself , in the fecond book of his Works and Days , has an allufion to these verses . 3. The Works and Days ; The Works and Days is the ...
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... beginning was not in the copy which he faw in lead , a great argument against those who think it of Heliod : and Plu- tarch likewife , in his Sympofiacs , begins this poem according to Paufanias . Ver . 23. The words of Hefiod are thefe ...
... beginning was not in the copy which he faw in lead , a great argument against those who think it of Heliod : and Plu- tarch likewife , in his Sympofiacs , begins this poem according to Paufanias . Ver . 23. The words of Hefiod are thefe ...
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... beginning of June ; to which month quite through May , fay they , the fun paffes through Taurus and Gemini . Ver . 22. It is evident from these and other lines , that though Perfes had defrauded his brother of his right , he was foon ...
... beginning of June ; to which month quite through May , fay they , the fun paffes through Taurus and Gemini . Ver . 22. It is evident from these and other lines , that though Perfes had defrauded his brother of his right , he was foon ...
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... beginning of this view , therefore , fhall not repeat it . Agri- culture is but one fubject , in many , of the work , and the reader is there relieved with feveral rural defcriptions , as of the northwind , autumn , the country repaft ...
... beginning of this view , therefore , fhall not repeat it . Agri- culture is but one fubject , in many , of the work , and the reader is there relieved with feveral rural defcriptions , as of the northwind , autumn , the country repaft ...
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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