General Biography: Or Lives, Critical And Historical, Of The Most Eminent Persons Of All Ages, Countries, Conditions And Professions, Arranged According To Alphabetical Order, Volume 9Robinson, 1814 - 644 pages |
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... pieces , of which a second edition was given by Barbou in 1754. A collection was also published of his discourses on ... piece of lyric composition , though with great licence of conjecture . In the text of Horace he chiefly follows that ...
... pieces , of which a second edition was given by Barbou in 1754. A collection was also published of his discourses on ... piece of lyric composition , though with great licence of conjecture . In the text of Horace he chiefly follows that ...
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... pieces . About this time Dr. Sanderson received a visit from his intimate friend the learned Dr. Hammond , who was desirous of entering with him into a free discussion of various points debated between the Calvinists and Arminians ...
... pieces . About this time Dr. Sanderson received a visit from his intimate friend the learned Dr. Hammond , who was desirous of entering with him into a free discussion of various points debated between the Calvinists and Arminians ...
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... pieces in the Neapoli- tan dialect , which became very popular . In the subsequent revolutions of the kingdom of Naples , amid all the vicissitudes undergone by the house of Arragon , Sannazaro remained faithfully attached to its ...
... pieces in the Neapoli- tan dialect , which became very popular . In the subsequent revolutions of the kingdom of Naples , amid all the vicissitudes undergone by the house of Arragon , Sannazaro remained faithfully attached to its ...
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... pieces only are left , an Ode to a Young Female , and a Hymn to Venus , with some fragments quoted by the scholiasts . These have been frequently published with the works of Anacreon , and with other Greek minor poets . Of the Ode , an ...
... pieces only are left , an Ode to a Young Female , and a Hymn to Venus , with some fragments quoted by the scholiasts . These have been frequently published with the works of Anacreon , and with other Greek minor poets . Of the Ode , an ...
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... pieces . It is particularly in the lyric class that he has acquired reputation , and such judges as Gro- tius , Heinsius , and Borrichius have mentioned him with high applause , and equalled him in some of his strains to Horace ...
... pieces . It is particularly in the lyric class that he has acquired reputation , and such judges as Gro- tius , Heinsius , and Borrichius have mentioned him with high applause , and equalled him in some of his strains to Horace ...
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