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 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 ...
Page 174
... Georgic . After the figns in the heavens , portending the change of weather , which are too many to be here inferted , the prodigies that are fuppofed to have preceded Cafar's death , and the deftructive war occafioned by it , are very ...
... Georgic . After the figns in the heavens , portending the change of weather , which are too many to be here inferted , the prodigies that are fuppofed to have preceded Cafar's death , and the deftructive war occafioned by it , are very ...
Page 175
... Georgic abounds with beauties , we fhall con- fider it more particularly , and give the reader fomé ex- amples of the manner in which he has treated the fubject . What he has faid with respect to the grafting and ma- nagement of trees ...
... Georgic abounds with beauties , we fhall con- fider it more particularly , and give the reader fomé ex- amples of the manner in which he has treated the fubject . What he has faid with respect to the grafting and ma- nagement of trees ...
Page 178
... Georgic with the description of a fatal murrain , which had raged among the Alps . The whole book is wrought up with great art , and the descriptions in particular are extremely beautiful . His rules for training up young calves to the ...
... Georgic with the description of a fatal murrain , which had raged among the Alps . The whole book is wrought up with great art , and the descriptions in particular are extremely beautiful . His rules for training up young calves to the ...
Page 181
... 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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