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... , λws : and fo frequently used by our old poets . Spencer , B. I. C. 5. ft . 15 . " Not all fo fatisfide , with greedy eye " He fought all round about . ” i . e . not altogether , not quite fo i . f . PREFACE . XXV IN King Lear, A& IV. ...
... , λws : and fo frequently used by our old poets . Spencer , B. I. C. 5. ft . 15 . " Not all fo fatisfide , with greedy eye " He fought all round about . ” i . e . not altogether , not quite fo i . f . PREFACE . XXV IN King Lear, A& IV. ...
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... poets in the fame kind of pleo- nafm , ( if there are any pleonasms at all , which I doubt of , ) as II ANTA is used by Homer , and OMNIA by Lucretius . Χρυσῆ δὲ τήσας ἔφερεν δέκα ΠΑΝΤΑ τάλαντα . 11. w . 232 . i.e. ten talents in all ...
... poets in the fame kind of pleo- nafm , ( if there are any pleonasms at all , which I doubt of , ) as II ANTA is used by Homer , and OMNIA by Lucretius . Χρυσῆ δὲ τήσας ἔφερεν δέκα ΠΑΝΤΑ τάλαντα . 11. w . 232 . i.e. ten talents in all ...
Page xxxiv
... poets have taught our Critics better ? Was it not for ONE man's guilt , that Pallas , ( the goddess of Wisdom too ) deftroyed a whole fleet ? " UNIUS ob noxam et furias Ajacis Oïlei ? Did not Juno deteft the whole Trojan race , because ...
... poets have taught our Critics better ? Was it not for ONE man's guilt , that Pallas , ( the goddess of Wisdom too ) deftroyed a whole fleet ? " UNIUS ob noxam et furias Ajacis Oïlei ? Did not Juno deteft the whole Trojan race , because ...
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... poets bave put a more extraordinary kind of refentment in the mouths of fome men . And first Euripides in Hippolytus , . 616 . Το ζεῦ , τί δὴ κίβδηλον ἀνθρώποις κακὸν , Γυναικας , εἰς φῶς Ηλία κατώκισας ; Εἰ γὰρ βρότειον ἤθελες σπεῖραι ...
... poets bave put a more extraordinary kind of refentment in the mouths of fome men . And first Euripides in Hippolytus , . 616 . Το ζεῦ , τί δὴ κίβδηλον ἀνθρώποις κακὸν , Γυναικας , εἰς φῶς Ηλία κατώκισας ; Εἰ γὰρ βρότειον ἤθελες σπεῖραι ...
Page xxxvi
... poets , that ever England faw , have imitated this fentiment . For thus Pofthumus in Cymbeline , Act II . refenting the behaviour of Imogen exclaims , " Is there no way for men to be , but women " Muft be balf - workers ? " And thus ...
... poets , that ever England faw , have imitated this fentiment . For thus Pofthumus in Cymbeline , Act II . refenting the behaviour of Imogen exclaims , " Is there no way for men to be , but women " Muft be balf - workers ? " And thus ...
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