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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... thofe things which would give us immediate pleasure . Ver . 306. After the poet has endeavoured to excite his brother to acts of juftice , by moral pre- cepts , he reminds him of his birth , intimating that by acts of virtue the honour ...
... thofe things which would give us immediate pleasure . Ver . 306. After the poet has endeavoured to excite his brother to acts of juftice , by moral pre- cepts , he reminds him of his birth , intimating that by acts of virtue the honour ...
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... thofe Egyptians , who had deserved well of their country , were , with their names , applied to other perfons . Thus , according to the hiftorian , the divine Orpheus set out with bribery , flattery , and delufion . Hefiod begins his ...
... thofe Egyptians , who had deserved well of their country , were , with their names , applied to other perfons . Thus , according to the hiftorian , the divine Orpheus set out with bribery , flattery , and delufion . Hefiod begins his ...
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... thofe bodies in the heavens and on the earth , from which they received benefit , the immediate objects of their gratitude and adoration : the fame were the motives afterwards which induced them to pay divine honours to mortal men , as ...
... thofe bodies in the heavens and on the earth , from which they received benefit , the immediate objects of their gratitude and adoration : the fame were the motives afterwards which induced them to pay divine honours to mortal men , as ...
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... thofe fan- dards of propriety , must have a fortunate conclu- hon " . But whatever fond and amusing profpects the country naturally opens to the mind , experience teaches us , that even there vexations will arise . the feafons of quiet ...
... thofe fan- dards of propriety , must have a fortunate conclu- hon " . But whatever fond and amusing profpects the country naturally opens to the mind , experience teaches us , that even there vexations will arise . the feafons of quiet ...
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... thofe lays ( and may the numbers pleafe ) • Which late last spring I labour'd at my ease . ' " Oh may Agenax , with ... thofe love confuming pains That burn my breast and glow within my veins . May Halcyons smooth the waves , and calm ...
... thofe lays ( and may the numbers pleafe ) • Which late last spring I labour'd at my ease . ' " Oh may Agenax , with ... thofe love confuming pains That burn my breast and glow within my veins . May Halcyons smooth the waves , and calm ...
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