A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Cook's Hesiod. Fawke's Theocritus. Anacreon. Bion. Moschus. Sappho. Musaeus & Apollonius Rhodius. The Rape of Helen. Creech's Lucretius and Grainger's TibullusJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1795 |
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Page 77
... Amycus , he is much more pathetical , clear , and pleasant , than Apollonius on the " fame , or any other fubject . In his converfa " tion of Alcmena and Tirefias , of Hercules and the old fervant of Augeas , in Cynifca " and Thyonichus ...
... Amycus , he is much more pathetical , clear , and pleasant , than Apollonius on the " fame , or any other fubject . In his converfa " tion of Alcmena and Tirefias , of Hercules and the old fervant of Augeas , in Cynifca " and Thyonichus ...
Page 137
... Amycus , the fon of Neptune , and king of the Bebry- cians ; who valuing himfelf on his fuperiority in ftrength , and the art of boxing , ufed to compel every ftranger that touched upon his coaft to take up the cæftus , and make trial ...
... Amycus , the fon of Neptune , and king of the Bebry- cians ; who valuing himfelf on his fuperiority in ftrength , and the art of boxing , ufed to compel every ftranger that touched upon his coaft to take up the cæftus , and make trial ...
Page 138
... Amycus . Thou haft no caufe to bid me not to fear . 70 Pollux . Rude are your words , and wrongfully apply'd , Your manners fierce , your bofom fwoln with pride . Amycus . Thou fee'st me as I am : these lands are mine ; I never yet have ...
... Amycus . Thou haft no caufe to bid me not to fear . 70 Pollux . Rude are your words , and wrongfully apply'd , Your manners fierce , your bofom fwoln with pride . Amycus . Thou fee'st me as I am : these lands are mine ; I never yet have ...
Page 139
... Amycus fhould fall : Vam fears ! for with both hands brave Pollux ply'd His furious blows , and ftorm'd on every fide ; The quick - repeated ftrokes his rival sftun , And curb the force of Neptune's lawless fon . Giddy with blows the ...
... Amycus fhould fall : Vam fears ! for with both hands brave Pollux ply'd His furious blows , and ftorm'd on every fide ; The quick - repeated ftrokes his rival sftun , And curb the force of Neptune's lawless fon . Giddy with blows the ...
Page 140
... Amycus is faid to have invented the combat of the cæftus . Ver . 19. Archbishop Potter obferves , " When the two lambent flames , about the heads of Caf- tor and Pollux , appeared together , they were efteemed an excellent omen ...
... Amycus is faid to have invented the combat of the cæftus . Ver . 19. Archbishop Potter obferves , " When the two lambent flames , about the heads of Caf- tor and Pollux , appeared together , they were efteemed an excellent omen ...
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