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Page 320
... lines of Bion's epitaph on the death of Adonis . The sonorous melody for which this little poem is so remarkable , was the cause of my selecting it He recited the twenty lines after me with an error of only four words . This was a ...
... lines of Bion's epitaph on the death of Adonis . The sonorous melody for which this little poem is so remarkable , was the cause of my selecting it He recited the twenty lines after me with an error of only four words . This was a ...
Page 525
... line where he asks David the " shepherd boy " -why he pours over babbling brooks ? why he does not " Toss his light limbs , and shake his amber locks ? " There are two lines which we cannot forbear to quote - and for a purpose widely ...
... line where he asks David the " shepherd boy " -why he pours over babbling brooks ? why he does not " Toss his light limbs , and shake his amber locks ? " There are two lines which we cannot forbear to quote - and for a purpose widely ...
Page 530
... lines in question . Triffler would settle a long disputed question , if he would refer more particularly to the whole of his authority , and give the whole of his verses . The Greek line he cites from Aulus Gellius , lib . xvii . c . 21 ...
... lines in question . Triffler would settle a long disputed question , if he would refer more particularly to the whole of his authority , and give the whole of his verses . The Greek line he cites from Aulus Gellius , lib . xvii . c . 21 ...
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