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... Georgics " is here inserted from Mr. Milbourne's version , that , ac- cording to his own proposal , his verses may be compared with those which he censures . What makes the richest tilth , beneath what signs To plough , and when to ...
... Georgics " is here inserted from Mr. Milbourne's version , that , ac- cording to his own proposal , his verses may be compared with those which he censures . What makes the richest tilth , beneath what signs To plough , and when to ...
Page 460
... Georgic , upon Bees ; after which , says Dryden , " my latter swarm is hardly worth the hiving . " About the same time he composed the arguments prefixed to the several books of Dryden's Virgil : and produced an essay on the " Georgics ...
... Georgic , upon Bees ; after which , says Dryden , " my latter swarm is hardly worth the hiving . " About the same time he composed the arguments prefixed to the several books of Dryden's Virgil : and produced an essay on the " Georgics ...
Page 461
... Georgics , " published in the Mis- cellanies ; and a Latin encomium on Queen Mary , in the " Musæ Anglicanæ . " These verses exhibit all the fondness of friendship ; but on one side or the other , friendship was afterwards too weak for ...
... Georgics , " published in the Mis- cellanies ; and a Latin encomium on Queen Mary , in the " Musæ Anglicanæ . " These verses exhibit all the fondness of friendship ; but on one side or the other , friendship was afterwards too weak for ...
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