The Guardian: In Two Volumes, Band 1J. Thompson and S. Dampier, 1762 |
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... Theocritus at Oxford . But as my age and experience have armed me against any temp- tation to the paftoral life , I can now with the greater fafety confider it ; and fhall lay down fuch rules , as thofe of my readers who have the ...
... Theocritus at Oxford . But as my age and experience have armed me against any temp- tation to the paftoral life , I can now with the greater fafety confider it ; and fhall lay down fuch rules , as thofe of my readers who have the ...
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... Theocritus . Fair is my flock , nor yet uncomely I , If liquid fountains flatter not . And why Should liquid fountains flatter us , yet show The bordering flow'rs lefs beauteous than they grow ? A fecond - characteristic of a true ...
... Theocritus . Fair is my flock , nor yet uncomely I , If liquid fountains flatter not . And why Should liquid fountains flatter us , yet show The bordering flow'rs lefs beauteous than they grow ? A fecond - characteristic of a true ...
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... Theocritus fprinkled with left handed ra- vens , blafted oaks , witchcrafts , evil eyes , and the like . And I obferve with great pleasure , that our English au- thor of the paftorals I have quoted , hath practifed this fecret with ...
... Theocritus fprinkled with left handed ra- vens , blafted oaks , witchcrafts , evil eyes , and the like . And I obferve with great pleasure , that our English au- thor of the paftorals I have quoted , hath practifed this fecret with ...
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... Theocritus ; whom I fhall fpeak of more largely , be- cause he rivals the greatest of all poets , Virgil himself . He hath the advantage confeffedly of the Latin , in com- ing before him , and writing in a tongue more proper for ...
... Theocritus ; whom I fhall fpeak of more largely , be- cause he rivals the greatest of all poets , Virgil himself . He hath the advantage confeffedly of the Latin , in com- ing before him , and writing in a tongue more proper for ...
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... Theocritus , which Virgil , who borrowed his greatest beauties from hím , hath avoided . I will however add , that Virgil , out of the excellence of genius only , hath come fhort of Theocritus ; and had poffibly excelled him , if in ...
... Theocritus , which Virgil , who borrowed his greatest beauties from hím , hath avoided . I will however add , that Virgil , out of the excellence of genius only , hath come fhort of Theocritus ; and had poffibly excelled him , if in ...
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