Collections from the Greek Anthology: And from the Pastoral, Elegiac, and Dramatic Poets of GreeceJ. Murray, 1813 - 525 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... natural turn of thought ; and , contenting himself with a deli- neation of what he felt , and not what he might feel , he has done as much as the circumstance required , and no more . The short observations on human life , couched in ...
... natural turn of thought ; and , contenting himself with a deli- neation of what he felt , and not what he might feel , he has done as much as the circumstance required , and no more . The short observations on human life , couched in ...
Pagina x
... nature , whose muse is dedicated to amorous pleasures and incentives , should have sat a severe and stern censor on human frailties , passions , and infirmities , that the same man who was by turns a slave to love and melancholy ...
... nature , whose muse is dedicated to amorous pleasures and incentives , should have sat a severe and stern censor on human frailties , passions , and infirmities , that the same man who was by turns a slave to love and melancholy ...
Pagina xiii
... nature , conspire to adapt personal satire to the taste of the world . But the once dreaded sting becomes blunted by time , and the sallies of raillery lose their poig- nancy with their application . Two Epigrams of Meleager seem to fix ...
... nature , conspire to adapt personal satire to the taste of the world . But the once dreaded sting becomes blunted by time , and the sallies of raillery lose their poig- nancy with their application . Two Epigrams of Meleager seem to fix ...
Pagina xxi
... nature . * Gibbon takes a reluctant leave of Procopius for Agathias . " We must now ( says he ) relinquish a statesman and a soldier , to at- tend the footsteps of a poet and a rhetorician . " The savage descent of the Franks under the ...
... nature . * Gibbon takes a reluctant leave of Procopius for Agathias . " We must now ( says he ) relinquish a statesman and a soldier , to at- tend the footsteps of a poet and a rhetorician . " The savage descent of the Franks under the ...
Pagina xxxiv
... is the character given of him by Quintilian . The natural partiality of Cæsar for his countrymen only permits him to give a secondary place to Terence , the imitator of the elegant , but not of the witty , Grecian . xxxiv PREFACE .
... is the character given of him by Quintilian . The natural partiality of Cæsar for his countrymen only permits him to give a secondary place to Terence , the imitator of the elegant , but not of the witty , Grecian . xxxiv PREFACE .
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