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... Latin almost as easily as our Profeffors ? And can you doubt that what the knew fo well , would be known , admired , and imitated by every other ? or fay , that the writers of her time were , fome of them , ignorant enough of the ...
... Latin almost as easily as our Profeffors ? And can you doubt that what the knew fo well , would be known , admired , and imitated by every other ? or fay , that the writers of her time were , fome of them , ignorant enough of the ...
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... Latin verfes , you know , are of Catullus . Ut flos in feptis fecretus nafcitur hortis , Ignotus pecori , nullo convulfus aratro , Quem mulcent auræ , firmat fol , educat imber , Multi illum pueri , multæ optavere puellæ . Idem , quum ...
... Latin verfes , you know , are of Catullus . Ut flos in feptis fecretus nafcitur hortis , Ignotus pecori , nullo convulfus aratro , Quem mulcent auræ , firmat fol , educat imber , Multi illum pueri , multæ optavere puellæ . Idem , quum ...
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... " Grecisms , and the Latin elegancies of Virgil . ” Nay , don't you remember , the other day , that we were half of a mind to give him up for a fhameless plagiary plagiary , chiefly because we were fure he had been OF IMITATION . II.
... " Grecisms , and the Latin elegancies of Virgil . ” Nay , don't you remember , the other day , that we were half of a mind to give him up for a fhameless plagiary plagiary , chiefly because we were fure he had been OF IMITATION . II.
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... Latin poets , that they all came out of the Greek fchools . It is as true of the moderns in this part of the world , that they , in ge- neral , have had their ... Latin Latin . But when the question is of any particular OF IMITATION . 13.
... Latin poets , that they all came out of the Greek fchools . It is as true of the moderns in this part of the world , that they , in ge- neral , have had their ... Latin Latin . But when the question is of any particular OF IMITATION . 13.
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On the Marks of Imitation Richard Hurd. Latin . But when the question is of any particular writer , how far and in what inftances you may pre- fume on his being a profefs'd imitator , much will depend on the certain knowledge you have of ...
On the Marks of Imitation Richard Hurd. Latin . But when the question is of any particular writer , how far and in what inftances you may pre- fume on his being a profefs'd imitator , much will depend on the certain knowledge you have of ...
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