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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... Theogony ; but what he there fays of the mufes appearing to him , and giving him a fceptre of laurel , 1 pafs over as a poetical flight . It likewife appears , from the firit book of his Works and Days , that his father left fome ...
... Theogony ; but what he there fays of the mufes appearing to him , and giving him a fceptre of laurel , 1 pafs over as a poetical flight . It likewife appears , from the firit book of his Works and Days , that his father left fome ...
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... Theogony , or Generation of the Gods , which Fabricius puts out of difpute to be of Hefiod : nor is it doubted , fays he , that Pythagoras took it for his , who feigned he faw the foul of our poet in hell chained to a brazen pilar ; a ...
... Theogony , or Generation of the Gods , which Fabricius puts out of difpute to be of Hefiod : nor is it doubted , fays he , that Pythagoras took it for his , who feigned he faw the foul of our poet in hell chained to a brazen pilar ; a ...
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... Theogony to justify the allufion . " An author , who was giv- ing an account of an ancient poet , ought to have been more careful than this biographer was in his judgment of thefe verfes ; becaufe fuch as read him , and are at the fame ...
... Theogony to justify the allufion . " An author , who was giv- ing an account of an ancient poet , ought to have been more careful than this biographer was in his judgment of thefe verfes ; becaufe fuch as read him , and are at the fame ...
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... Theogony , and it being often mentioned by an- cient writers : we have an account of another poem , under the title of Howyou , the Generation of Heroes . The favourers of the Shield of Hercu les would have that poem received as a ...
... Theogony , and it being often mentioned by an- cient writers : we have an account of another poem , under the title of Howyou , the Generation of Heroes . The favourers of the Shield of Hercu les would have that poem received as a ...
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... Theogony he makes but one contention , and that fprung from night , foon after the birth of the fates , and other evil deities , which are of the fame parent . From contention fprung all that is hurt- ful to gods and men , as plagues ...
... Theogony he makes but one contention , and that fprung from night , foon after the birth of the fates , and other evil deities , which are of the fame parent . From contention fprung all that is hurt- ful to gods and men , as plagues ...
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Æneid afferts Amycus Anacreon ancient Argo atoms beauty becauſe Befides body breaſt called caufe charms Colchian compofed Daphnis defcend defcribed defcription divine earth Eclogues Epicurus EPIGRAM ev'ry eyes facred fafe faid fair fame fate fays fecond feeds feems fenfe fhall fhore fhould fhow fignifies fince fing fire firft firſt flain flame foft fome fong foon foul fpread fpring ftill ftreams fubject fuch fuppofed fweet Georgic gods Greek heaven Hefiod Hercules heroes himſelf Homer honour Idyllium Iliad Jafon Jove Jupiter laft lefs likewife Lucretius maid mind moft moſt mufes muft muſt nature nymphs o'er obferves Ovid paffage paftoral Phrixus plain pleaſure Plutarch poem poet pow'r prefent reafon reft rife rofe ſays thee thefe themſelves Theocritus Theogony theſe things thofe thoſe thou Tiphys tranflation Tzetzes uſed Venus verfes verſes Virgil void whofe wind words καὶ