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In the Nemeaean ode the reader must , in mere justice to Pindar , observe that whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy ...
In the Nemeaean ode the reader must , in mere justice to Pindar , observe that whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy ...
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The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings , the original parents of mankind ; with whose actions the elements consented ; on whose rectitude , or deviation of will , depended the state of terrestrial nature ...
The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings , the original parents of mankind ; with whose actions the elements consented ; on whose rectitude , or deviation of will , depended the state of terrestrial nature ...
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The original incongruity runs through the whole ; the king is now Caesar , and now the Lyon ; and the name Pan is given to the Supreme Being.t But when this constitutional absurdity is forgiven , the poem must be confessed to be written ...
The original incongruity runs through the whole ; the king is now Caesar , and now the Lyon ; and the name Pan is given to the Supreme Being.t But when this constitutional absurdity is forgiven , the poem must be confessed to be written ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volume 83 of Oxford world's classics Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1906 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 493 pages |
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