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... poet's de- fcription is long , even to tedioufnefs ; whereas thofe of Virgil are far more concife , and elegant . • The next year , when Plancus and Lepidus were created Confuls , is remarkable for the birth of the famous poet , Publius ...
... poet's de- fcription is long , even to tedioufnefs ; whereas thofe of Virgil are far more concife , and elegant . • The next year , when Plancus and Lepidus were created Confuls , is remarkable for the birth of the famous poet , Publius ...
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... Poet was recommended by him to fome of the favourites ( c ) of Caefar , as a perfon of extraordinary genius for poetry . This divifion of the lands , and the melancholy condition of those , ( c ) The perfon , to whom Virgil was ...
... Poet was recommended by him to fome of the favourites ( c ) of Caefar , as a perfon of extraordinary genius for poetry . This divifion of the lands , and the melancholy condition of those , ( c ) The perfon , to whom Virgil was ...
Page lxii
... Poet fays expreffly , that these verfes were begun by 715. his command ( x ) . He celebrates his patron in a moft elegant and polite manner : and as Pollio was not only a great General ; but alfo one of the best fcholars of his time ...
... Poet fays expreffly , that these verfes were begun by 715. his command ( x ) . He celebrates his patron in a moft elegant and polite manner : and as Pollio was not only a great General ; but alfo one of the best fcholars of his time ...
Page lxiii
... Poet's genius . Year of Rome 7151 716 . The next year began with the march of M. Vip- 717 . fanius Agrippa , one of the new Confuls into Gaul ; to quiet an infurrection there . Agrippa was fuc- cessful , and was the fecond Roman , who ...
... Poet's genius . Year of Rome 7151 716 . The next year began with the march of M. Vip- 717 . fanius Agrippa , one of the new Confuls into Gaul ; to quiet an infurrection there . Agrippa was fuc- cessful , and was the fecond Roman , who ...
Page lxiv
... Poet , complying with his direction , represented Gallus himself , as a fhepherd dying for love , like the Daphnis of the Greek Poet ( g ) . f ( e ) Tu procul a patria , nec fit mihi credere , tantum Alpinas , ah dura , nives , et ...
... Poet , complying with his direction , represented Gallus himself , as a fhepherd dying for love , like the Daphnis of the Greek Poet ( g ) . f ( e ) Tu procul a patria , nec fit mihi credere , tantum Alpinas , ah dura , nives , et ...
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