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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... lefs and unneceffary ; but we may venture to place him a thousand years before Chrift , without ex ceeding an hundred , perhaps , on either fide . 11. Some circumftances of his life from bis writings . Having thus far agreed to his ...
... lefs and unneceffary ; but we may venture to place him a thousand years before Chrift , without ex ceeding an hundred , perhaps , on either fide . 11. Some circumftances of his life from bis writings . Having thus far agreed to his ...
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... lefs is the poem that gave Herodotus occafion to fay that Hefiod , with Homer , was the first who introduced a theogony among the Grecians ; the fr who gave names to the gods , afcribed to them bonours and arts , giving particular ...
... lefs is the poem that gave Herodotus occafion to fay that Hefiod , with Homer , was the first who introduced a theogony among the Grecians ; the fr who gave names to the gods , afcribed to them bonours and arts , giving particular ...
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... lefs than you borrow , but more , if you are able . " Ver . 498. The reafon Tzetzes , and fome o- ther commentators , give for this advice , is , that wine , when the cask is first pierced , is small , being next the air , and when low ...
... lefs than you borrow , but more , if you are able . " Ver . 498. The reafon Tzetzes , and fome o- ther commentators , give for this advice , is , that wine , when the cask is first pierced , is small , being next the air , and when low ...
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... lefs your lois fhould the return no more : 410 With all your flock , how difmal would it be To have the cargo perish in the fea ! A load , you know , too ponderous for the wain , Will cruth the axletree , and fpoil the grain . Let ev'ry ...
... lefs your lois fhould the return no more : 410 With all your flock , how difmal would it be To have the cargo perish in the fea ! A load , you know , too ponderous for the wain , Will cruth the axletree , and fpoil the grain . Let ev'ry ...
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... lefs ev'ning his , what days of pain ! Of a luxurious mate , a wanton dame , That ever burns with an infatiate flame , A wife whe feeks to revel out the nights In fumptuous banquets , and in ftol'n delights : Ah . wretched mortal ...
... lefs ev'ning his , what days of pain ! Of a luxurious mate , a wanton dame , That ever burns with an infatiate flame , A wife whe feeks to revel out the nights In fumptuous banquets , and in ftol'n delights : Ah . wretched mortal ...
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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