The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Nide 13John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... seems , and not undefignedly , to have prevented any mistake about his country ; he tells us pofitively , in the fame book , he never was but once at fea , and that in a voyage from Aulis , a fea port in Boeotia , to the island Euboea ...
... seems , and not undefignedly , to have prevented any mistake about his country ; he tells us pofitively , in the fame book , he never was but once at fea , and that in a voyage from Aulis , a fea port in Boeotia , to the island Euboea ...
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... seems , by fome expreflions , willing to believe it if he could , is forced to decline the difpute , and leave it in the fame uncertainty in which he found it . The ftory of the two poets meeting in Delos , is a mani- felt forgery ...
... seems , by fome expreflions , willing to believe it if he could , is forced to decline the difpute , and leave it in the fame uncertainty in which he found it . The ftory of the two poets meeting in Delos , is a mani- felt forgery ...
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... seems to have left unread no work that might in the leaft contribute to the completing his defign : him I fhall follow in the fucceeding difcourfe , so far as relates to the titles of the poems , and the authorities for them . 2. The ...
... seems to have left unread no work that might in the leaft contribute to the completing his defign : him I fhall follow in the fucceeding difcourfe , so far as relates to the titles of the poems , and the authorities for them . 2. The ...
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... seems abfurd , to advise to sweep up the chaff after they had threshed it in a place where the wind blowed it away ; but we are to take notice , that the time for threfhing is when a loft gale blows , fufficient only to feparate the ...
... seems abfurd , to advise to sweep up the chaff after they had threshed it in a place where the wind blowed it away ; but we are to take notice , that the time for threfhing is when a loft gale blows , fufficient only to feparate the ...
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... seems to have been that of re- lating a war betwixt fupernatural beings , and , by raifing his imagination to the utmost height , to prefent the dreadfulleft ideas which the human mind is capable of conceiving : and I believe I may ...
... seems to have been that of re- lating a war betwixt fupernatural beings , and , by raifing his imagination to the utmost height , to prefent the dreadfulleft ideas which the human mind is capable of conceiving : and I believe I may ...
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