The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the Early Scotish Drama. In Two Volumes, Том 2Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1810 |
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... Respondi , me de origine nihil contendere , & c . Ab hac sen- tentia Gavinus vir sane honestus tam minime abhorruit , quàm ratio ipsa ei visa est cum veritate maxime consentire . " probably written in Latin , seems to have shared the 16.
... Respondi , me de origine nihil contendere , & c . Ab hac sen- tentia Gavinus vir sane honestus tam minime abhorruit , quàm ratio ipsa ei visa est cum veritate maxime consentire . " probably written in Latin , seems to have shared the 16.
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... Latin , seems to have shared the common fate of the writings entrusted to Polydore ; who in order to secure the faults of his work from the danger of detection , is said to have destroyed many invaluable monuments of antiquity . Vossius ...
... Latin , seems to have shared the common fate of the writings entrusted to Polydore ; who in order to secure the faults of his work from the danger of detection , is said to have destroyed many invaluable monuments of antiquity . Vossius ...
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... the chief of clerks . Of the Latin language his knowledge was undoubt- edly extensive and as he has informed us that Lord Sinclair requested him to translate Homer , we may conclude that he was also acquainted with Greek 26.
... the chief of clerks . Of the Latin language his knowledge was undoubt- edly extensive and as he has informed us that Lord Sinclair requested him to translate Homer , we may conclude that he was also acquainted with Greek 26.
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... Latin authors betrays itself in almost every page of his writings . His verses , though less smooth and elegant than those of Dunbar , are not unskilfully constructed . With regard to the quantity of syllables he has not displayed the ...
... Latin authors betrays itself in almost every page of his writings . His verses , though less smooth and elegant than those of Dunbar , are not unskilfully constructed . With regard to the quantity of syllables he has not displayed the ...
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... Latin histories , others in chanting to the lyre Sapphic and elegiac verse . Homer is the only Greek poet enumerated among the attend- ants of the Muses ; but x With respect to the genealogy of the Muses , all the editions which I have ...
... Latin histories , others in chanting to the lyre Sapphic and elegiac verse . Homer is the only Greek poet enumerated among the attend- ants of the Muses ; but x With respect to the genealogy of the Muses , all the editions which I have ...
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