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... of Foot Wroughton , George , Esq . Aldwick Woodgeare , John , Esq . Crookhill Yate , W. H. C. M. Esq . Broomsb . Park York Book Club York Circulating Library NO . 1. Observations on the Writings and Genius of viii LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS ,
... of Foot Wroughton , George , Esq . Aldwick Woodgeare , John , Esq . Crookhill Yate , W. H. C. M. Esq . Broomsb . Park York Book Club York Circulating Library NO . 1. Observations on the Writings and Genius of viii LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS ,
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... Genius of Lu- cretius with Specimens of a New Translation . 2. On the Government of the Imagination ; on the Frenzy of Tasso and Collins 3. On the Tender Melancholy which usually follows the acuter feelings of sorrow 4. Wolkmar and his ...
... Genius of Lu- cretius with Specimens of a New Translation . 2. On the Government of the Imagination ; on the Frenzy of Tasso and Collins 3. On the Tender Melancholy which usually follows the acuter feelings of sorrow 4. Wolkmar and his ...
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... the first of philosophic poems . Landino , recording the discove ries of his friend , exclaims B Illius - manu nobis , doctissime rhetor , Integer in Observations on the Writings and Genius of cretius with Specimens of a New Translation.
... the first of philosophic poems . Landino , recording the discove ries of his friend , exclaims B Illius - manu nobis , doctissime rhetor , Integer in Observations on the Writings and Genius of cretius with Specimens of a New Translation.
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... genius of the Roman . That verses , however , inculcating the tenets of the different schools of philosophy existed in Greece , wants not the fullest testimony , and the poem of Empedocles on the doc- trines of Pythagoras , was so ...
... genius of the Roman . That verses , however , inculcating the tenets of the different schools of philosophy existed in Greece , wants not the fullest testimony , and the poem of Empedocles on the doc- trines of Pythagoras , was so ...
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... genius , could be supposed equal . However various and hostile may be the ideas with regard to the tenets of Lucretius , of his merit as a poet , I should imagine , there can be but one opinion . He who has acquired a just taste for ...
... genius , could be supposed equal . However various and hostile may be the ideas with regard to the tenets of Lucretius , of his merit as a poet , I should imagine , there can be but one opinion . He who has acquired a just taste for ...
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