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... poetry , as one might expect among a warlike , bufied , unpolifhed people . Not to enquire about the fongs of triumph , mentioned even in Romulus's time ; there was certainly fomething of poetry among them in the next reign under Numa ...
... poetry , as one might expect among a warlike , bufied , unpolifhed people . Not to enquire about the fongs of triumph , mentioned even in Romulus's time ; there was certainly fomething of poetry among them in the next reign under Numa ...
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... poetry to have their turn ; how ever , the first that fprung up and flourish- ed to any degree , was till a cyon from the fame root . What I mean , is Satire ; the produce of the old comedy . This kind of poetry had been attempted in a ...
... poetry to have their turn ; how ever , the first that fprung up and flourish- ed to any degree , was till a cyon from the fame root . What I mean , is Satire ; the produce of the old comedy . This kind of poetry had been attempted in a ...
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that they wrote in hexameter verfe ) : that Fundanius was the best comic poet then , and Meliffus no bad one : that Varius was the most efteemed for epic poetry , before the Æneid appeared ; and one of the most efteemed for tragedy al ...
that they wrote in hexameter verfe ) : that Fundanius was the best comic poet then , and Meliffus no bad one : that Varius was the most efteemed for epic poetry , before the Æneid appeared ; and one of the most efteemed for tragedy al ...
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Diversity of Geniuses | 36 |
The Manners of a Bookfeller | 42 |
Epicuruss Character | 48 |
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