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... Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " 66 It is surely not difficult in the solitude of a college , or in the bustle of the world , to find useful studies and serious employment . No man needs to be so burdened with life as to + In ...
... Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " 66 It is surely not difficult in the solitude of a college , or in the bustle of the world , to find useful studies and serious employment . No man needs to be so burdened with life as to + In ...
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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 Olympic 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 Olympic Ode ...
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... Pindar's style ! " Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemæan 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 ...
... Pindar's style ! " Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemæan 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 ...
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... Pindaric Odes have so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated cen- sure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts de- serve at ...
... Pindaric Odes have so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated cen- sure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts de- serve at ...
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... Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral ...
... Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral ...
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