The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Page 204
... Melancholy's plaintive tongue Repeat what later bards have fung ; But thine was Homer's ancient might , And thine victorious Pindar's flight : Thy Thy hand each Lesbian wreathe attir'd : Thy lip Sicilian 204 AKENSIDE'S POEMS .
... Melancholy's plaintive tongue Repeat what later bards have fung ; But thine was Homer's ancient might , And thine victorious Pindar's flight : Thy Thy hand each Lesbian wreathe attir'd : Thy lip Sicilian 204 AKENSIDE'S POEMS .
Page 228
... 1 . Yet then did Pleafure's lawless throng , Oft rushing forth in loose attire , Thy virgin dance , thy graceful song , Pollute with impious revels dire . Pindar . Ofair , O fair , O chaste , thy echoing shade May 228 AKENSIDE'S POEMS .
... 1 . Yet then did Pleafure's lawless throng , Oft rushing forth in loose attire , Thy virgin dance , thy graceful song , Pollute with impious revels dire . Pindar . Ofair , O fair , O chaste , thy echoing shade May 228 AKENSIDE'S POEMS .
Page 242
... Pindar faw to full perfection brought . O Pindar , oft shalt thou be hail'd of me : Not that Apollo fed thee from his shrine ; Not that thy lips drank sweetness from the bee Nor yet that , ftudious of thy notes divine , Pan danc'd their ...
... Pindar faw to full perfection brought . O Pindar , oft shalt thou be hail'd of me : Not that Apollo fed thee from his shrine ; Not that thy lips drank sweetness from the bee Nor yet that , ftudious of thy notes divine , Pan danc'd their ...
Page 294
... Pindar was contemporary with Ari- ftides and Cymon , in whom the glory of ancient Greece was at its height . When Xerxes invaded Greece , Pindar was true to the common intereft of his country ; hough his fellow citizens , the Thebans ...
... Pindar was contemporary with Ari- ftides and Cymon , in whom the glory of ancient Greece was at its height . When Xerxes invaded Greece , Pindar was true to the common intereft of his country ; hough his fellow citizens , the Thebans ...
Page 295
... Pindar is perhaps the moft exemplary proof of this connection , which occurs in hiftory . The Thebans were ... Pindar U 4 Pindar fhould have equally distinguished himself from the reft of TWO BOOKS OF ODES . 295.
... Pindar is perhaps the moft exemplary proof of this connection , which occurs in hiftory . The Thebans were ... Pindar U 4 Pindar fhould have equally distinguished himself from the reft of TWO BOOKS OF ODES . 295.
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