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Page 95
... offering of their respect , one in an Italian ode of considerable merit , predicting the future greatness of Milton ; and the other in a latin address , in which admiration is expressed in terms of extreme and almost extravagant ...
... offering of their respect , one in an Italian ode of considerable merit , predicting the future greatness of Milton ; and the other in a latin address , in which admiration is expressed in terms of extreme and almost extravagant ...
Page 97
... offers some advice to that author , then on the point of publishing an Italian grammar , he declares that " neither Athens herself , with her lucid Ilissus , nor ancient Rome , with the banks of her Tiber , could so entirely detain him ...
... offers some advice to that author , then on the point of publishing an Italian grammar , he declares that " neither Athens herself , with her lucid Ilissus , nor ancient Rome , with the banks of her Tiber , could so entirely detain him ...
Page 109
... offer presents to Apollo in Callimachus's hymn to Delos . ἀπὸ ξανθων αριμασπών Ουπις τε λοξώ τε και ευαίων εκαεξγη Θυγατέρες βορέαο , Υμν ' εις Δηλον . b The fable of Apollo , driven by Jupiter from heaven , and compelled to tend the ...
... offer presents to Apollo in Callimachus's hymn to Delos . ἀπὸ ξανθων αριμασπών Ουπις τε λοξώ τε και ευαίων εκαεξγη Θυγατέρες βορέαο , Υμν ' εις Δηλον . b The fable of Apollo , driven by Jupiter from heaven , and compelled to tend the ...
Page 112
... offering of a Muse despise , Who , scarcely nursed beneath her arctic skies , With hasty step has traced the Hesperian shore , Your towns , your arts , your manners to explore . We too can boast our swans , whose liquid throats Cheer ...
... offering of a Muse despise , Who , scarcely nursed beneath her arctic skies , With hasty step has traced the Hesperian shore , Your towns , your arts , your manners to explore . We too can boast our swans , whose liquid throats Cheer ...
Page 116
... of art aught may be trusted and that there be nothing adverse m our cline , or the fate of this age , it haply would be no ras , from an equal dili- gence and inclination , to present the like . offer 116 LI LIFE OF MILTON .
... of art aught may be trusted and that there be nothing adverse m our cline , or the fate of this age , it haply would be no ras , from an equal dili- gence and inclination , to present the like . offer 116 LI LIFE OF MILTON .
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