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... Æneid . It was this turn of mind , which , if I am not deceived , made Horace more fond of Euripides than of Sophocles ; at leaft if we may judge from his more frequent allufions to the works of the former than of the latter . The ...
... Æneid . It was this turn of mind , which , if I am not deceived , made Horace more fond of Euripides than of Sophocles ; at leaft if we may judge from his more frequent allufions to the works of the former than of the latter . The ...
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... Æneid , admirably well , in blank verfe , by An- nibal Caro , and the Georgics , in blank veric alio , by Daniello , and Lucretius by Marchetti . I RETURN to Ovid , by obferving that he has put into the mouth of his heroine a greater ...
... Æneid , admirably well , in blank verfe , by An- nibal Caro , and the Georgics , in blank veric alio , by Daniello , and Lucretius by Marchetti . I RETURN to Ovid , by obferving that he has put into the mouth of his heroine a greater ...
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