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Page 23
... story of Lodona is prettily Ovidian ; but there is fcarcely a fingle incident in it , but what is borrowed from fome transformation of Ovid . The picture of a virtuous and learned man in * Novel Abregé Chronologique de l ' Hiftoire de ...
... story of Lodona is prettily Ovidian ; but there is fcarcely a fingle incident in it , but what is borrowed from fome transformation of Ovid . The picture of a virtuous and learned man in * Novel Abregé Chronologique de l ' Hiftoire de ...
Page 51
... story , and selecting a more new , as well as more striking incident , in the life of Orpheus . It was the custom of this time , for almost every rhymer to try his hand in an ode on St. Cecilia ; we find many defpicable rhapfodies , fo ...
... story , and selecting a more new , as well as more striking incident , in the life of Orpheus . It was the custom of this time , for almost every rhymer to try his hand in an ode on St. Cecilia ; we find many defpicable rhapfodies , fo ...
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... story . I have lately feen a manufcript ode , entitled , " On the Ufe and Abuse of Poetry , " in which Orpheus is confidered in another , and a higher light , according to ancient mytho- logy , as the firft legiflator and civilizer of ...
... story . I have lately feen a manufcript ode , entitled , " On the Ufe and Abuse of Poetry , " in which Orpheus is confidered in another , and a higher light , according to ancient mytho- logy , as the firft legiflator and civilizer of ...
Page 62
... story of the celebrated Lully , who having been one day accused of ne- ver fetting any thing to mufic , but the languid verfes of Quin- ault , was immediately animated with the reproach , and as it were feized with a kind of enthusiasm ...
... story of the celebrated Lully , who having been one day accused of ne- ver fetting any thing to mufic , but the languid verfes of Quin- ault , was immediately animated with the reproach , and as it were feized with a kind of enthusiasm ...
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... story of Ganymede is intro- duced not very artificially * . To these may may be added that exquifite ode in praise of Apollo , defcriptive of his birth and victories , which we find in the Iphigenia in Tauris † . On the other hand , the ...
... story of Ganymede is intro- duced not very artificially * . To these may may be added that exquifite ode in praise of Apollo , defcriptive of his birth and victories , which we find in the Iphigenia in Tauris † . On the other hand , the ...
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