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... something backward : and the writer of his life , having no certain memorials to work upon , seems to have pitched upon the two most illustrious con- VOL . I. B suls he could find about that time , to signalise THE LIFE ...
... something backward : and the writer of his life , having no certain memorials to work upon , seems to have pitched upon the two most illustrious con- VOL . I. B suls he could find about that time , to signalise THE LIFE ...
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... writers , that Virgil seems to have fol- lowed the fortune of the other , as well as the sub- ject and manner of his writing . For Homer is said to have been of very mean parents , such as got their bread by day - labour ; so is Virgil ...
... writers , that Virgil seems to have fol- lowed the fortune of the other , as well as the sub- ject and manner of his writing . For Homer is said to have been of very mean parents , such as got their bread by day - labour ; so is Virgil ...
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... writer's only objection ) confutes himself ; for Martial , who certainly saw the true copy , speaks of it with contempt ; and yet that pastoral equals , at least , the address to the Dauphin , which is prefixed to the late edition ...
... writer's only objection ) confutes himself ; for Martial , who certainly saw the true copy , speaks of it with contempt ; and yet that pastoral equals , at least , the address to the Dauphin , which is prefixed to the late edition ...
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... writer , excepting Homer . The reader will be satisfied of this , if he consults that author in his own language ; for the translation is a great deal more obscure than the original . Whilst Virgil thus enjoyed the sweets of a learned ...
... writer , excepting Homer . The reader will be satisfied of this , if he consults that author in his own language ; for the translation is a great deal more obscure than the original . Whilst Virgil thus enjoyed the sweets of a learned ...
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... writer , that has a constant flux of verse , would stand amazed how Virgil could employ three whole years in revising five or six hundred verses , most of which , probably , were made some time be- fore : but there is more reason to ...
... writer , that has a constant flux of verse , would stand amazed how Virgil could employ three whole years in revising five or six hundred verses , most of which , probably , were made some time be- fore : but there is more reason to ...
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