The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 1George Bell & Son, 1877 |
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Joseph Addison Henry George Bohn. AN ESSAY1 ON VIRGIL'S GEORGICS . VIRGIL may be reckoned the first who introduced three new kinds of poetry among the Romans , which he copied after three the greatest masters of Greece . Theocritus and ...
Joseph Addison Henry George Bohn. AN ESSAY1 ON VIRGIL'S GEORGICS . VIRGIL may be reckoned the first who introduced three new kinds of poetry among the Romans , which he copied after three the greatest masters of Greece . Theocritus and ...
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... Virgil . Among these different kinds of subjects , that which the 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 ...
... Virgil . Among these different kinds of subjects , that which the 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 ...
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... Virgil's correction , and had his last hand put to it . The first Georgic was probably burlesqued in the author's ... Virgil would not have translated it from Hesiod , had he not discovered some beauty in it ; and indeed the beauty of it ...
... Virgil's correction , and had his last hand put to it . The first Georgic was probably burlesqued in the author's ... Virgil would not have translated it from Hesiod , had he not discovered some beauty in it ; and indeed the beauty of it ...
Contents
POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS | 1 |
of Aristæus 10 2220 | 10 |
A Letter from Italy to the Right Honourable Charles Lord | 29 |
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