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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... verses in this difcourfe , I speak of them as they stand in the original . We find , in fome editions , the divifion beginning at the end of the moral and religious precepts ; but Grævius denies such distinctions be- He was undoubtedly ...
... verses in this difcourfe , I speak of them as they stand in the original . We find , in fome editions , the divifion beginning at the end of the moral and religious precepts ; but Grævius denies such distinctions be- He was undoubtedly ...
Sivu 34
... verses of Manilius , and the second book of the Georgic , in my Discourse on the Writings of Hefiod , be al- lowed to have any force , Virgil has doubtlefs been as much obliged to our poet in the fecond book of his Georgic , as in the ...
... verses of Manilius , and the second book of the Georgic , in my Discourse on the Writings of Hefiod , be al- lowed to have any force , Virgil has doubtlefs been as much obliged to our poet in the fecond book of his Georgic , as in the ...
Sivu 36
... verse of the Cumaan poet only by report , to apply them to the state of now approaches ; the great order , or round ... verses . Virgil goes on in his compli- ment to Pollio on his new - born fon : Ille deum vitam accipiet . He fhall ...
... verse of the Cumaan poet only by report , to apply them to the state of now approaches ; the great order , or round ... verses . Virgil goes on in his compli- ment to Pollio on his new - born fon : Ille deum vitam accipiet . He fhall ...
Sivu 56
... verses , which tells us the winds fprung from Af- træus and Aurora , I should fuppofe fpurious , be- cause we are told in the fame poem they fprung from Typhæus , which is every way agreeable to the phyfical fenfe ; we must therefore ...
... verses , which tells us the winds fprung from Af- træus and Aurora , I should fuppofe fpurious , be- cause we are told in the fame poem they fprung from Typhæus , which is every way agreeable to the phyfical fenfe ; we must therefore ...
Sivu 61
... verses of Chryfaor and Cal- lirhoe , are , doubtless , placed here by mistake , fince they were introduced before in a more proper manner : here they are absurd , because Chryfaor and Callirhoe are not reckoned mortals . Ver . 1354. I ...
... verses of Chryfaor and Cal- lirhoe , are , doubtless , placed here by mistake , fince they were introduced before in a more proper manner : here they are absurd , because Chryfaor and Callirhoe are not reckoned mortals . Ver . 1354. I ...
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