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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... most neceffary duties of trines proceed from his own experience , his own natural fentiments , and therefore he invokes the mufes from Pieria ; his account of the Generation of the Gods , being received , partly from books , and partly ...
... most neceffary duties of trines proceed from his own experience , his own natural fentiments , and therefore he invokes the mufes from Pieria ; his account of the Generation of the Gods , being received , partly from books , and partly ...
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... most of the commen- tators have 1 - ft untouched , as not knowing what to make of it I think it must allude to the decay of arts and fciences ; which the fucceeding verle will farther explain . Ver 73. By Prometh us is furely meant , as ...
... most of the commen- tators have 1 - ft untouched , as not knowing what to make of it I think it must allude to the decay of arts and fciences ; which the fucceeding verle will farther explain . Ver 73. By Prometh us is furely meant , as ...
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... most early times , wore golden grafhoppers in their hair ; because , being a musical animal , it was facred to Apollo , who was one of their tutelar deities . I can remember but a fingle paffage that contains any thing spoken in ...
... most early times , wore golden grafhoppers in their hair ; because , being a musical animal , it was facred to Apollo , who was one of their tutelar deities . I can remember but a fingle paffage that contains any thing spoken in ...
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... most of the age of the poet , or of the poet's old age . Ver . 492. This doubtless is a part of the super- ftition of the age , though the Scholiaft would give us a phyfical reafon for abftinence at that time ; which is , left the ...
... most of the age of the poet , or of the poet's old age . Ver . 492. This doubtless is a part of the super- ftition of the age , though the Scholiaft would give us a phyfical reafon for abftinence at that time ; which is , left the ...
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... most learned fathers in the Chriftian church , extols the Works and Days of our poet , while he expreffes his dif- like to the Theogony . Sect . 2. Of the first book . The reason why our poet addreffes to Perfes , I have fhowed in my ...
... most learned fathers in the Chriftian church , extols the Works and Days of our poet , while he expreffes his dif- like to the Theogony . Sect . 2. Of the first book . The reason why our poet addreffes to Perfes , I have fhowed in my ...
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