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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... fhould not have used Mr. Creech and Mr. Kennet with fo much freedom as I have , had not the translation of the one , and the remark of the other , fo nearly concerned our poet ; but I hope the clearing a difficult and remarkable paffage ...
... fhould not have used Mr. Creech and Mr. Kennet with fo much freedom as I have , had not the translation of the one , and the remark of the other , fo nearly concerned our poet ; but I hope the clearing a difficult and remarkable paffage ...
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... fhould be among all of the fame profeflion , that they may be filled with envy , and contention . " Plato certainly mif- takes the poet in this , when he imagines that He- fiod thinks it abfolutely neceffary for the better government of ...
... fhould be among all of the fame profeflion , that they may be filled with envy , and contention . " Plato certainly mif- takes the poet in this , when he imagines that He- fiod thinks it abfolutely neceffary for the better government of ...
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... fhould fuffer for the fays , with the greateft folemnity , " 6 may I nor crimes of their rulers , which they diflike and con- mine be juft , if to be so is to be unfortunate , and demn , where is the juftice of it ? And he quotes if to ...
... fhould fuffer for the fays , with the greateft folemnity , " 6 may I nor crimes of their rulers , which they diflike and con- mine be juft , if to be so is to be unfortunate , and demn , where is the juftice of it ? And he quotes if to ...
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... fhould fall . Tzetz . After this he informs his countrymen in their Ver . 114. Hefiod keeps up an air of piety quite feveral duties at home and in the fields . For the through his poem , which , as Mr. Addison obferves poetical and ...
... fhould fall . Tzetz . After this he informs his countrymen in their Ver . 114. Hefiod keeps up an air of piety quite feveral duties at home and in the fields . For the through his poem , which , as Mr. Addison obferves poetical and ...
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... fhould affect the fruit of the enjoyment . Indeed , the next lines feem to favour this conjecture ; and perhaps the poet endeavoured , while he was laying down a religious precept , to ftrengthen it by philofo- phy . Ver . 530. These ...
... fhould affect the fruit of the enjoyment . Indeed , the next lines feem to favour this conjecture ; and perhaps the poet endeavoured , while he was laying down a religious precept , to ftrengthen it by philofo- phy . Ver . 530. These ...
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