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... Virgil has not always used such adjuncts and epi- thets as a painter or ftatuary might work after ; he says only ultrices CURÆ , morti- ferum BELLUM , mala MENTIS GAUDIA ; particularly , malesuada is only applied to FAMES , instead of a ...
... Virgil has not always used such adjuncts and epi- thets as a painter or ftatuary might work after ; he says only ultrices CURÆ , morti- ferum BELLUM , mala MENTIS GAUDIA ; particularly , malesuada is only applied to FAMES , instead of a ...
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... Virgil + . The poet having mournfully defcribed a fteer ftruck with a peftilence , and falling down dead in the ... Virgil was not content ; what he * Ver . 115 . : + Ver . 525 . By the epithet GRAVES Virgil infinuates , after his manner ...
... Virgil + . The poet having mournfully defcribed a fteer ftruck with a peftilence , and falling down dead in the ... Virgil was not content ; what he * Ver . 115 . : + Ver . 525 . By the epithet GRAVES Virgil infinuates , after his manner ...
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... Virgil , which adds to the pleasantry of the story . In one of the paffages where POPE has copied Vida , he has loft the propriety of the original , which arifes from the different colours of the men , at chefs . Thus , when difpers'd a ...
... Virgil , which adds to the pleasantry of the story . In one of the paffages where POPE has copied Vida , he has loft the propriety of the original , which arifes from the different colours of the men , at chefs . Thus , when difpers'd a ...
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