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Page 121
... writer confeffedly igno- rant of the Greek tongue , who has yet the infufferable arrogance to vilify and cen- fure , * Ver . 60 . I cannot forbear fubjoining a paffage of an excellent writer and accomplished fcholar , which is fo very ...
... writer confeffedly igno- rant of the Greek tongue , who has yet the infufferable arrogance to vilify and cen- fure , * Ver . 60 . I cannot forbear fubjoining a paffage of an excellent writer and accomplished fcholar , which is fo very ...
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... writer has fhewn a greater penetration into the receffes of the human heart , than this philofopher , in the second book of his Rhetoric ; where he treats of the different manners and paf- fions , that distinguish each different age and ...
... writer has fhewn a greater penetration into the receffes of the human heart , than this philofopher , in the second book of his Rhetoric ; where he treats of the different manners and paf- fions , that distinguish each different age and ...
Page 175
... writer in heroics ; Sappho , Ana- creon , and Simonides , in lyric ; Euripides ONLY , among tragic writers ; among the hiftorians , Ephorus , and Theopompus ; and Ifocrates , among the rhetoricians : all these , says he , have used ...
... writer in heroics ; Sappho , Ana- creon , and Simonides , in lyric ; Euripides ONLY , among tragic writers ; among the hiftorians , Ephorus , and Theopompus ; and Ifocrates , among the rhetoricians : all these , says he , have used ...
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