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... Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympick Ode ...
... Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympick Ode ...
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... Pindar's style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemeaean songs what Antiquity has disposed them to expect , will at least see that they are ill represented by such puny poetry ; and all will determine that if this ...
... Pindar's style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemeaean songs what Antiquity has disposed them to expect , will at least see that they are ill represented by such puny poetry ; and all will determine that if this ...
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... Pindar , that he pours his violence and rapidity of verse , as a river swoln with rain rushes from the moun- tain ; or of himself , that his genius wanders in quest of poetical decorations , as the bee wanders to collect honey ; he , in ...
... Pindar , that he pours his violence and rapidity of verse , as a river swoln with rain rushes from the moun- tain ; or of himself , that his genius wanders in quest of poetical decorations , as the bee wanders to collect honey ; he , in ...
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