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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... passage , on the invention of arts ; men , fays he , were at first fimple and unexperienced ; the art of agriculture , and all other , were entirely unknown ; they knew not difcafes , nor the pangs of death ; when they died they expired ...
... passage , on the invention of arts ; men , fays he , were at first fimple and unexperienced ; the art of agriculture , and all other , were entirely unknown ; they knew not difcafes , nor the pangs of death ; when they died they expired ...
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... passages , and in fome particulars may poffibly have had a regard to fome relations , fabulous or real , of antiquity ; but his main design seems to have been that of re- lating a war betwixt fupernatural beings , and , by raifing his ...
... passages , and in fome particulars may poffibly have had a regard to fome relations , fabulous or real , of antiquity ; but his main design seems to have been that of re- lating a war betwixt fupernatural beings , and , by raifing his ...
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... passages , and in fome particulars may poffibly have had a regard to fome relations , fabulous or real , of antiquity ; but his main design seems to have been that of re- lating a war betwixt fupernatural beings , and , by raifing his ...
... passages , and in fome particulars may poffibly have had a regard to fome relations , fabulous or real , of antiquity ; but his main design seems to have been that of re- lating a war betwixt fupernatural beings , and , by raifing his ...
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... passages that are quoted . Upon a review of my cotes , I am afraid I have inftanced too many paffages from Virgil as imita- tions of Theocritus : what I have to fay in my defence is , they appeared to me at the time to be fimilar , if ...
... passages that are quoted . Upon a review of my cotes , I am afraid I have inftanced too many paffages from Virgil as imita- tions of Theocritus : what I have to fay in my defence is , they appeared to me at the time to be fimilar , if ...
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... passage in view , and even improved it , in his Eloifa to Abelard : The dark fome pines that o'er yon rocks reclin'd Wave high , and murmur to the hollow wind . He has alfo finely imitated this paffage , and the " Sweeter beginning of ...
... passage in view , and even improved it , in his Eloifa to Abelard : The dark fome pines that o'er yon rocks reclin'd Wave high , and murmur to the hollow wind . He has alfo finely imitated this paffage , and the " Sweeter beginning of ...
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