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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... observes , from Scaliger , that it appears from this verfe that the ancients did cat the daffodil , or ασφόδελος . Ver . 67. What the poet means by this , and the preceding lines , is , if we knew how few things are neceffary for the ...
... observes , from Scaliger , that it appears from this verfe that the ancients did cat the daffodil , or ασφόδελος . Ver . 67. What the poet means by this , and the preceding lines , is , if we knew how few things are neceffary for the ...
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... Daughters of Egis - bearing Jove divine , In lafting fong the mortal dames rehearse ; Let the bright belles of earth adorn the verfe , 1401 Ver . 68. Le Clerc judiciously observes , that the TRANS . II . D THE THEOGONY . 49.
... Daughters of Egis - bearing Jove divine , In lafting fong the mortal dames rehearse ; Let the bright belles of earth adorn the verfe , 1401 Ver . 68. Le Clerc judiciously observes , that the TRANS . II . D THE THEOGONY . 49.
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... observes , that the poets frequently make inanimate beings affected , or with joy or grief , when there is reafon for ei- ther , that it may be faid , even inanimate beings are moved . This , I think , is a boldnefs feldom practifed but ...
... observes , that the poets frequently make inanimate beings affected , or with joy or grief , when there is reafon for ei- ther , that it may be faid , even inanimate beings are moved . This , I think , is a boldnefs feldom practifed but ...
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... observes , " it is hardly pof- fible for a tranflation to be more erroneous : xα- xoxo fignifies a fruit of a yellow or faffron colour , which Creech has rendered crocus ; but crocus or faffron is a flower , not a fruit . I was a long ...
... observes , " it is hardly pof- fible for a tranflation to be more erroneous : xα- xoxo fignifies a fruit of a yellow or faffron colour , which Creech has rendered crocus ; but crocus or faffron is a flower , not a fruit . I was a long ...
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... observes , that this Lytierfes is only a fet of formulary maxims , or old fayings , and as fuch I have diftinguished them in diftichs , as they are in the Greek . Ver . 59 Virgil has something similar ; At rubicunda Ceres medeo ...
... observes , that this Lytierfes is only a fet of formulary maxims , or old fayings , and as fuch I have diftinguished them in diftichs , as they are in the Greek . Ver . 59 Virgil has something similar ; At rubicunda Ceres medeo ...
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