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... odes were not to be performed , with both singing and dancing , in the manner of Pindar's , it seemed unnecessary to confine the first and second itanzas to the same exact numbers , as was done in his Atrepbes and antistrophes .
... odes were not to be performed , with both singing and dancing , in the manner of Pindar's , it seemed unnecessary to confine the first and second itanzas to the same exact numbers , as was done in his Atrepbes and antistrophes .
Page 368
broadest part of Thermopyla , where , being surrounded by the Perfions , they bravely fell , after having flain great numbers of their enemies : but Diodorus Siculus , Plutarch , and others maintain , that the Grecians attacked the camp ...
broadest part of Thermopyla , where , being surrounded by the Perfions , they bravely fell , after having flain great numbers of their enemies : but Diodorus Siculus , Plutarch , and others maintain , that the Grecians attacked the camp ...
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The languageis , for the most part , elegant , expreflive , and agreeably elevated ; but the numbers are , in many places dissonant and inharmonious . Little defects of this kind , however , ( which are no more than flaws in the ...
The languageis , for the most part , elegant , expreflive , and agreeably elevated ; but the numbers are , in many places dissonant and inharmonious . Little defects of this kind , however , ( which are no more than flaws in the ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ... Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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