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Page ix
... fit Mæcenas " of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whether by any 1 any process of critical chymistry , you can lower DEDICATION .
... fit Mæcenas " of the author who recommends this me- thod of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whether by any 1 any process of critical chymistry , you can lower DEDICATION .
Page 30
... ; much in the fame manner as the real fight of fuch fcenes and profpects is apt to give the mind a Iliad . B. 16. in the notes : Ver . 465 . com- 7 compofed turn , and incline it to thoughts and 30 · ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... ; much in the fame manner as the real fight of fuch fcenes and profpects is apt to give the mind a Iliad . B. 16. in the notes : Ver . 465 . com- 7 compofed turn , and incline it to thoughts and 30 · ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... Iliad , he would not have attempted one after so great a master ; he might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a mufic- ode * after Alexander's Feaft , which the * He wrote this Qde at the request of Steele . variety ...
... Iliad , he would not have attempted one after so great a master ; he might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a mufic- ode * after Alexander's Feaft , which the * He wrote this Qde at the request of Steele . variety ...
Page 65
... Iliad and Odyssey . After Boccace's death , the republic of Flo- rence invited Emanuel Chryfoloras , a nobleman of Conftan- tinople , to open an academy for teaching the Greek lan- guage about the year 1394. This Chryfoloras came into ...
... Iliad and Odyssey . After Boccace's death , the republic of Flo- rence invited Emanuel Chryfoloras , a nobleman of Conftan- tinople , to open an academy for teaching the Greek lan- guage about the year 1394. This Chryfoloras came into ...
Page 108
... Iliad , which was published for his own benefit , by a fubfcription fo large , that it does honour to this Kingdom . Mr. Warburton informs us , that he fold it to Lintot the book- feller , on the following terms ; twelve hundred pounds ...
... Iliad , which was published for his own benefit , by a fubfcription fo large , that it does honour to this Kingdom . Mr. Warburton informs us , that he fold it to Lintot the book- feller , on the following terms ; twelve hundred pounds ...
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