Tracts, Philogical, Critical, and Miscellaneous: Consisting of Pieces Many Before Published Separately, Several Annexed to the Works of Learned Friends, and Others Now First Printed from the Author's Manuscripts, Volume 2White, 1790 |
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Pagina 16
... Poets call , this cenforious age , and the Divines , this finful age . Some of my neighbours call it this learned age , in due reverence to their own abilities , and , like Monfieur Balzac , who ufed to pull off his beaver when he fpake ...
... Poets call , this cenforious age , and the Divines , this finful age . Some of my neighbours call it this learned age , in due reverence to their own abilities , and , like Monfieur Balzac , who ufed to pull off his beaver when he fpake ...
Pagina 21
... Poem of Catullus , called Atys , feems to have been an imitation of those pieces which were fung by the Galli , the caftrated and mad priests of Cybele , to a little drum , or to a tabor and pipe ; -two inftruments conftantly used by ...
... Poem of Catullus , called Atys , feems to have been an imitation of those pieces which were fung by the Galli , the caftrated and mad priests of Cybele , to a little drum , or to a tabor and pipe ; -two inftruments conftantly used by ...
Pagina 35
... poets , male and female , and of many projectors in philo- fophy , criticism , divinity , and fo forth , only because I did not fall defperately in love with the compofi- tions which they forced into my hands . The ufual fees which I ...
... poets , male and female , and of many projectors in philo- fophy , criticism , divinity , and fo forth , only because I did not fall defperately in love with the compofi- tions which they forced into my hands . The ufual fees which I ...
Pagina 48
... poems makes perpetual mention of Polycrates : But in the poems which remain , and are afcribed to Anacreon , this prince is never named . Here is a pretty fragment of Anacreon , from Edit . Pauw . P. 270 . ΖΩ ἄναξ , ὦ δαμάλης Ἔρως , καὶ ...
... poems makes perpetual mention of Polycrates : But in the poems which remain , and are afcribed to Anacreon , this prince is never named . Here is a pretty fragment of Anacreon , from Edit . Pauw . P. 270 . ΖΩ ἄναξ , ὦ δαμάλης Ἔρως , καὶ ...
Pagina 49
... poems . In the fourth line I have ventured to read επεστράφαται , Ionic , for ἐπεστραμμένοι εισι . Somne read επιστρέφονται ; but I cannot bear , in the penultima , a vowel made fhort before 1 . VILL ANTHOLOGI A. L. I. c . 20 . Εινοδίην ...
... poems . In the fourth line I have ventured to read επεστράφαται , Ionic , for ἐπεστραμμένοι εισι . Somne read επιστρέφονται ; but I cannot bear , in the penultima , a vowel made fhort before 1 . VILL ANTHOLOGI A. L. I. c . 20 . Εινοδίην ...
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Pagina 488 - Greek words, with prose and verse, with histories, opinions, and customs, if it doth not contribute to make him more rational, more prudent, more civil, more virtuous and religious ? Such occupations are to be considered as introductory, and ornamental, and serviceable to studies of higher importance, such as philoso-, phy, law, ethics, politics, and divinity.
Pagina 488 - ... affairs. He was earnestly solicitous to have the cause of literature, which the monks opposed so violently, separated from the cause of Lutheranism ; and therefore he often observes, that they had no kind of connection. But, as Dr. Jortin remarks, with great truth, " the study of the belles lettres is a poor occupation, if they are to be confined to a knowledge of language and antiquities, and not employed to the service of religion and of other sciences.
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