A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Particularly the British and Irish, from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions Or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning are Accurately Displayed : with a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions, Volume 1T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1761 - Biography |
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... poet , the fon of a freed- man , and , according to St. Jerome , born in the confulfhip of Hoftilius Mancinus and Attilius Serranus , in the year of Rome 583 ; but there appears fomewhat of confufion and perplexity in this chronology ...
... poet , the fon of a freed- man , and , according to St. Jerome , born in the confulfhip of Hoftilius Mancinus and Attilius Serranus , in the year of Rome 583 ; but there appears fomewhat of confufion and perplexity in this chronology ...
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... poet as his love of ap- plaufe ; yet it is thereby evident , that Brutus had an opinion of Accius's poetry , and ... poet often told me ; and was well acquainted , for the time he lived in , with the Gre- cian as well as Roman writings ...
... poet as his love of ap- plaufe ; yet it is thereby evident , that Brutus had an opinion of Accius's poetry , and ... poet often told me ; and was well acquainted , for the time he lived in , with the Gre- cian as well as Roman writings ...
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... poet , not only by his skill in verfification , but by his expreffion of grief . " Ambigitur quoties uter utro fit prior Pacuvius famam docti fenis , Accius alti . Horat . Epift . I. lib . ii . ver . 55 . " Whate'er difputes of ancient ...
... poet , not only by his skill in verfification , but by his expreffion of grief . " Ambigitur quoties uter utro fit prior Pacuvius famam docti fenis , Accius alti . Horat . Epift . I. lib . ii . ver . 55 . " Whate'er difputes of ancient ...
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... poet . Imitated . " Ennius , whofe mufe by nature was defign'd Compleat , had art with bounteous nature join'd ; And tragic Accius of style sublime , And weighty words , shall stand the shock of time . Clara etiam per ævi idem fpatium ...
... poet . Imitated . " Ennius , whofe mufe by nature was defign'd Compleat , had art with bounteous nature join'd ; And tragic Accius of style sublime , And weighty words , shall stand the shock of time . Clara etiam per ævi idem fpatium ...
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... poet Lu- cretius , which I leave to the curious who are lovers of antiquity ; and which may be read at large , in a dia- logue , entitled , Ofci et Volfci dialo- gus ludis Romanis actus , & c . Ifwear before God and men , by the facred ...
... poet Lu- cretius , which I leave to the curious who are lovers of antiquity ; and which may be read at large , in a dia- logue , entitled , Ofci et Volfci dialo- gus ludis Romanis actus , & c . Ifwear before God and men , by the facred ...
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