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... confiderable honour , to the place of his birth , fucceeding Eratofthenes in the care of the Alexandrian Library , in the reign of Ptolemy Energetes , who afcended the throne of Egypt the year before Chrift 246. That prince had been ...
... confiderable honour , to the place of his birth , fucceeding Eratofthenes in the care of the Alexandrian Library , in the reign of Ptolemy Energetes , who afcended the throne of Egypt the year before Chrift 246. That prince had been ...
Page 140
... confiderable additions in the third volume of Anecdota Edmundi Mar- tene . I transcribe part of the opening of this poem , as the curious reader may have a pleafure in comparing it with that of Taffo . Ardor 3 Ardor ineft , inquam ...
... confiderable additions in the third volume of Anecdota Edmundi Mar- tene . I transcribe part of the opening of this poem , as the curious reader may have a pleafure in comparing it with that of Taffo . Ardor 3 Ardor ineft , inquam ...
Page 142
... confiderable merit for the time in which they lived - Gunther , and William of Bretagny ; the first was a German monk , who wrote after the year 1108 , and has left various hiftorical and poetical works ; particularly two of the Epic ...
... confiderable merit for the time in which they lived - Gunther , and William of Bretagny ; the first was a German monk , who wrote after the year 1108 , and has left various hiftorical and poetical works ; particularly two of the Epic ...
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... confiderable merit , who celebrated in Latin verfe the exploits of Richard the First , and who was called Gulielmus Peregrinus , from his having attended that Prince to the Holy Land . Leland mentions him by the name of Gulielmus de ...
... confiderable merit , who celebrated in Latin verfe the exploits of Richard the First , and who was called Gulielmus Peregrinus , from his having attended that Prince to the Holy Land . Leland mentions him by the name of Gulielmus de ...
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... confiderable specimen of this very rare Italian Epic poen , of which our country is faid to poffefs but a fingle copy . The father of Boccacio was an Italian merchant , a native of Certaldo , near Florence , who in his travels attached ...
... confiderable specimen of this very rare Italian Epic poen , of which our country is faid to poffefs but a fingle copy . The father of Boccacio was an Italian merchant , a native of Certaldo , near Florence , who in his travels attached ...
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