Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1Thomas Kirk, Main-Street., 1812 - English language |
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Hugh Blair. Lect . Page XLIII . Homer's Iliad and Odyssey -- Virgil's Æneid ... 279 XLIV . Lucan's Pharsalia - Tasso's Jerusalem -- Camo- en's Lusiad - Fenelon's Telemachus - Voltaire's Henriade - Milton's Paradise Lost . XLV . Dramatic ...
Hugh Blair. Lect . Page XLIII . Homer's Iliad and Odyssey -- Virgil's Æneid ... 279 XLIV . Lucan's Pharsalia - Tasso's Jerusalem -- Camo- en's Lusiad - Fenelon's Telemachus - Voltaire's Henriade - Milton's Paradise Lost . XLV . Dramatic ...
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... Virgil , Horace , Tibullus , Propertius , Ovid , Phædrus , Cæsar Cicero , Livy , Sallust , Varro , and Vitruvius . The third age is , that of the restoration of learning , under the Popes Julius II . and Leo X ; when flourished Ariosto ...
... Virgil , Horace , Tibullus , Propertius , Ovid , Phædrus , Cæsar Cicero , Livy , Sallust , Varro , and Vitruvius . The third age is , that of the restoration of learning , under the Popes Julius II . and Leo X ; when flourished Ariosto ...
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... Virgil are poets of inconsiderable mer- it , and that Demosthenes and Cicero are not great orators , we may boldly venture to tell such a man , that he is come too late with his discoveries . The reputation of such writers is estab ...
... Virgil are poets of inconsiderable mer- it , and that Demosthenes and Cicero are not great orators , we may boldly venture to tell such a man , that he is come too late with his discoveries . The reputation of such writers is estab ...
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... Virgil , and Horace , were viewed in the same light as we now view Dryden , Pope , and Addison , It is not to commentators and universities , that the classics are indebted for their fame . They became classics and school- books , in ...
... Virgil , and Horace , were viewed in the same light as we now view Dryden , Pope , and Addison , It is not to commentators and universities , that the classics are indebted for their fame . They became classics and school- books , in ...
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... Virgil , to this day , stand not within many degrees of any rival . Orators , such as Cicero and Demosthenes , we have none . In history , not- withstanding some defects , which I am afterwards to mention in the ancient historical plans ...
... Virgil , to this day , stand not within many degrees of any rival . Orators , such as Cicero and Demosthenes , we have none . In history , not- withstanding some defects , which I am afterwards to mention in the ancient historical plans ...
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