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... Maittaire writes me word , that he intends to bring you acquainted with Horace , Virgil , Terence , and Martial , who are the most famous Latin poets ; therefore I think it may now be necef- fary to inform you a little what poetry is ...
... Maittaire writes me word , that he intends to bring you acquainted with Horace , Virgil , Terence , and Martial , who are the most famous Latin poets ; therefore I think it may now be necef- fary to inform you a little what poetry is ...
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... Maittaire ce matin , où j'ai fort bien traduit de l'Anglois en Latin , et du La- tin en Anglois , fi bien qu'il a écrit à la fin , Optimè . J'ai auffi repété un verbe Grec , affez bien . Après cela j'ai couru chez moi comme un petit ...
... Maittaire ce matin , où j'ai fort bien traduit de l'Anglois en Latin , et du La- tin en Anglois , fi bien qu'il a écrit à la fin , Optimè . J'ai auffi repété un verbe Grec , affez bien . Après cela j'ai couru chez moi comme un petit ...
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... Maittaire's this morning , where I have tranflated English into Latin , and La- tin into English , and fo well , that at the end of my exercise he has writ , Optimè . I have likewife repeated a Greek verb , and pretty well . After this ...
... Maittaire's this morning , where I have tranflated English into Latin , and La- tin into English , and fo well , that at the end of my exercise he has writ , Optimè . I have likewife repeated a Greek verb , and pretty well . After this ...
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... Maittaire a donné à vos der- niers travaux : Ce font - là de ces éloges qu'il eft bien flatteur de mériter ; et je fuis fur que vous avez fenti plus de plaifir à ce feul mot , que vous n'en auriez eu à jouer deux heures de fuite . En ...
... Maittaire a donné à vos der- niers travaux : Ce font - là de ces éloges qu'il eft bien flatteur de mériter ; et je fuis fur que vous avez fenti plus de plaifir à ce feul mot , que vous n'en auriez eu à jouer deux heures de fuite . En ...
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... Maittaire has added to your laft per- formances , and it is very flattering to be deferving of fuch commendations . I am fure that single word must have afforded you more pleasure than two hours play . Befides , how exceedingly ...
... Maittaire has added to your laft per- formances , and it is very flattering to be deferving of fuch commendations . I am fure that single word must have afforded you more pleasure than two hours play . Befides , how exceedingly ...
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Page 16 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 53 - RYNO The wind and the rain are past: calm is the noon of day. The clouds are divided in heaven. Over the green hills flies the inconstant sun. Red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream! but more sweet is the voice I hear. It is the voice of Alpin, the son of song, mourning for the dead!
Page 51 - ALONE, on the sea-beat rock, my daughter was heard to complain. Frequent and loud were her cries. What could her father do? All night I stood on the shore. I saw her by the faint beam of the moon.
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Page 55 - A tree with scarce a leaf, long grass which whistles in the wind, mark to the hunter's eye the grave of the mighty Morar.
Page 21 - Connal ? and who recount thy fathers ? Thy family grew like an oak on the mountain, which meeteth the wind with its lofty head. But now it is torn from the earth.
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Page 24 - Oscian, prince of men! what tears run down the cheeks of age? what shades thy mighty soul? Memory, son of Alpin, memory wounds the aged. Of former times are my thoughts; my thoughts are of the noble Fingal.