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... ancient Greek Month . 110 A Table of the ancient Greek Month .. 112 A View of the Months and Days ...... 114 Dedication to the Theogony ...... 129 The Theogony 131 Notes on the Theogony 174 A Discourse on the Theology and Mythology of ...
... ancient Greek Month . 110 A Table of the ancient Greek Month .. 112 A View of the Months and Days ...... 114 Dedication to the Theogony ...... 129 The Theogony 131 Notes on the Theogony 174 A Discourse on the Theology and Mythology of ...
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... ancient and valuable an author as Hesiod . Your high descent , and the glory of your illustrious ancestors , are the weakest foundations of your praise ; your own exalted worth attracts the ad- miration , and I may say the love , of all ...
... ancient and valuable an author as Hesiod . Your high descent , and the glory of your illustrious ancestors , are the weakest foundations of your praise ; your own exalted worth attracts the ad- miration , and I may say the love , of all ...
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... ancients , without the trouble and expense of learning their languages , which are of no other advantage to us than for the authors who have writ in them ; among which the poets are in the first rank of honour , whose verses are the ...
... ancients , without the trouble and expense of learning their languages , which are of no other advantage to us than for the authors who have writ in them ; among which the poets are in the first rank of honour , whose verses are the ...
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... age of Hesiod in regard to his vicinity to Homer : his bringing the chronology of both so low as he In his Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended . ' " does , is to support his favourite scheme of re- 16 A DISCOURSE ON THE.
... age of Hesiod in regard to his vicinity to Homer : his bringing the chronology of both so low as he In his Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended . ' " does , is to support his favourite scheme of re- 16 A DISCOURSE ON THE.
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... ancient poet . Pausanias , in his Bœotics , informs us , that his countrymen , the Bœotians , erected to his memory an image with a harp in his hand : the same author tells us , in another place , there was likewise a statue of Hesiod ...
... ancient poet . Pausanias , in his Bœotics , informs us , that his countrymen , the Bœotians , erected to his memory an image with a harp in his hand : the same author tells us , in another place , there was likewise a statue of Hesiod ...
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ancient Apollo Bacchus beauteous beauty beauty's behold beneath birth bless'd Boeotia bore born breast brother called Ceres Ceto charms Chimæra Chrysaor Clerc crown'd dame daughter deities derives divine dreadful earth Epimetheus eyes fable fair fame father fire fruits Georgic Geryon give goddess gods golden grace Grævius Greek hand head heaven Helicon Hence Hercules heroes Hesiod Homer honour immortal Jove Juno Jupiter justice king labour Lord Bacon maid meaning mighty mind mortal mountain Muses nature Neptune night nymphs o'er observe ocean offsprings Pallas passage Pausanias Peleus Perses Phoenician Phoenician word Phorcys plain Pleiades plough Plutarch Pluto poem poet poetical praise precepts Prometheus propitious race reason reign rise sacred Saturn says Scholiast sense signifies sing sire skies sons sprung story Styx swain Tartarus tells thee Theogony thou Titans translation Troy Typhoeus Tzetzes Venus verse Virgil Vulcan whence wind wise
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Strona 203 - More lovely, than Pandora, whom the Gods Endow'd with all their gifts, and O ! too like In sad event, when to the unwiser son Of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnared Mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire.
Strona 50 - Far does the man all other men excel Who from his wisdom thinks in all things well, Wisely considering, to himself a friend, All for the present best, and for the end. Nor is the man without his share of praise Who well the dictates of the wise obeys ; But he that is not wise himself, nor can Hearken to wisdom, is a useless man.
Strona 122 - Georgics go upon, is I think the meanest and least improving, but the most pleasing and delightful. Precepts of morality, besides the natural corruption of our tempers, which makes us averse to them, are so abstracted from ideas of sense, that they seldom give an opportunity for those beautiful descriptions and images which are the spirit and life of poetry.
Strona 73 - There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty nights, conceal'd from human eye : But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe, again appear.