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... , and prattle just as fome of our good country dames would at a Lord Mayor's fhow . This therefore may be allowed to be a Paftoral ; unless we are to be fo ftrict ; • that * 8 that none but men are to be introduced The PREFACE xiii.
... , and prattle just as fome of our good country dames would at a Lord Mayor's fhow . This therefore may be allowed to be a Paftoral ; unless we are to be fo ftrict ; • that * 8 that none but men are to be introduced The PREFACE xiii.
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... fome meafure imitated ; but at the fame time very much , im- proved . The Simplicity , the Innocence , and the Piety , which many of our Criticks think effential to a Pastoral , are far more confpicuous in the Bucolicks of Virgil , than ...
... fome meafure imitated ; but at the fame time very much , im- proved . The Simplicity , the Innocence , and the Piety , which many of our Criticks think effential to a Pastoral , are far more confpicuous in the Bucolicks of Virgil , than ...
Page xxix
... fome difpute about the very name and qua- lity of his Father . Donatus , or the writer of Vir- gil's life under that name , fays it was Maro ; and Servius and Probus affirm that it was Virgil . The latter feems to have been in the right ...
... fome difpute about the very name and qua- lity of his Father . Donatus , or the writer of Vir- gil's life under that name , fays it was Maro ; and Servius and Probus affirm that it was Virgil . The latter feems to have been in the right ...
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... fome of the greatest men of 684. that age , even in his younger days , feem to inti- mate , that his birth was not fo mean , as it is gene- rally reprefented ( e ) ;; has wivist 689 . When Virgil was five years old , his intimater ...
... fome of the greatest men of 684. that age , even in his younger days , feem to inti- mate , that his birth was not fo mean , as it is gene- rally reprefented ( e ) ;; has wivist 689 . When Virgil was five years old , his intimater ...
Page xxxi
... fome time at Naples , is affirmed alfo by Servius : fo that we may venture to believe Donatus , that he spent fome time there , in the ftudy of Roman and Greek literature , Phyfick and Mathematicks , before , he went to Rome ( 1 ) . It ...
... fome time at Naples , is affirmed alfo by Servius : fo that we may venture to believe Donatus , that he spent fome time there , in the ftudy of Roman and Greek literature , Phyfick and Mathematicks , before , he went to Rome ( 1 ) . It ...
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