The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen13John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... epigram , the green boughs of the flourishing pitchtree ; and Leonidas , in another which immediately fol- lows , gives an epithet alluding to its nefting in the oak , δρυοκοιτα τετίγια * " The Greek poets , agreeing thus in their de ...
... epigram , the green boughs of the flourishing pitchtree ; and Leonidas , in another which immediately fol- lows , gives an epithet alluding to its nefting in the oak , δρυοκοιτα τετίγια * " The Greek poets , agreeing thus in their de ...
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... Epigram XVII . In another Greek account in the front of his works , we are told , that " Theocritus the Bucolic ... epigrams , which generally ftands in the front of his works , probably accord- ing to his own original intention , he ...
... Epigram XVII . In another Greek account in the front of his works , we are told , that " Theocritus the Bucolic ... epigrams , which generally ftands in the front of his works , probably accord- ing to his own original intention , he ...
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... epigram , though perhaps it may not ap- pear at first fight , feems to be this ; he had a name- fake of Chios , a rhetorician , and pretender to poetry , who , according to Plutarch , fuffered an ignominious death , for fome crime ...
... epigram , though perhaps it may not ap- pear at first fight , feems to be this ; he had a name- fake of Chios , a rhetorician , and pretender to poetry , who , according to Plutarch , fuffered an ignominious death , for fome crime ...
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... Epigram in the Anthologia , afcribed to Artemi- dorus : boldest competitor . A proof of this , I think , will appear from this circumftance ; that Virgil , who is the great rival of the Sicilian , has few images in his Eclogues but what ...
... Epigram in the Anthologia , afcribed to Artemi- dorus : boldest competitor . A proof of this , I think , will appear from this circumftance ; that Virgil , who is the great rival of the Sicilian , has few images in his Eclogues but what ...
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... epigrams . Phile- tas was of Cos . Both thefe are mentioned in that beautiful Idyllium which Mofchus wrote on the death of Bion ; indeed this mention is in the fix verfes which were wanting in the ancient editions of that poet , and ...
... epigrams . Phile- tas was of Cos . Both thefe are mentioned in that beautiful Idyllium which Mofchus wrote on the death of Bion ; indeed this mention is in the fix verfes which were wanting in the ancient editions of that poet , and ...
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