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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... tells us in the fecond book of his Works and Days , that his father was an inhabitant of Cuma , in one of the Eolian ifles ; from whence he re- moved to Afcra , a village in Boeotia , at the foot of mount Helicon ; which was doubtlefs ...
... tells us in the fecond book of his Works and Days , that his father was an inhabitant of Cuma , in one of the Eolian ifles ; from whence he re- moved to Afcra , a village in Boeotia , at the foot of mount Helicon ; which was doubtlefs ...
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... tells us himself , confecrated to the mufes . 12. From Plutarch , 5 . Plutarch , in his Banquet of the Seven Wife Men ; makes Periander give an account of the poetical contention at Chalcis ; in which Hefiod and Ho- mer are made ...
... tells us himself , confecrated to the mufes . 12. From Plutarch , 5 . Plutarch , in his Banquet of the Seven Wife Men ; makes Periander give an account of the poetical contention at Chalcis ; in which Hefiod and Ho- mer are made ...
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... tells us he faw a copy of this wrote in plates of lead , but without divifions were in the first copies fignifies little ; for as we find them in several late editions , they are very natural , and contribute fomething to the ease of ...
... tells us he faw a copy of this wrote in plates of lead , but without divifions were in the first copies fignifies little ; for as we find them in several late editions , they are very natural , and contribute fomething to the ease of ...
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... tell when , where , or by whom , the ti- tle was changed . It is certainly a very ancient piece , and well worth the ... tells us , that Athenæus and Pliny , in fome other place , have given us reason to believe they thought the poem of ...
... tell when , where , or by whom , the ti- tle was changed . It is certainly a very ancient piece , and well worth the ... tells us , that Athenæus and Pliny , in fome other place , have given us reason to believe they thought the poem of ...
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... tells us is a part of the ardidos : the fame critic also 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 ...
... tells us is a part of the ardidos : the fame critic also 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 ...
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