Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages: To which are Added Two Essays, I. On the Poetry of the Eastern Nations. II. On the Arts, Commonly Called Imitativeat the Clarendon Press, 1772 - 217 страници |
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... reason why most of the Oriental nations agree in a tradition concerning a delightful spot , where the first inhabitants of the earth were placed before their fall . The ancients , who gave the name of Eudaimon , or Happy , to this ...
... reason why most of the Oriental nations agree in a tradition concerning a delightful spot , where the first inhabitants of the earth were placed before their fall . The ancients , who gave the name of Eudaimon , or Happy , to this ...
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... reason for the frequent allufions of the Perfians to the fun , which may , perhaps , be traced from the old language and popular religion of their country : thus Mihridad , or Mithridates , fignifies the gift of the fun , and answers to ...
... reason for the frequent allufions of the Perfians to the fun , which may , perhaps , be traced from the old language and popular religion of their country : thus Mihridad , or Mithridates , fignifies the gift of the fun , and answers to ...
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... reason , why Perfia has produced more writers of every kind , and chiefly poets , than all Europe together , fince their way of life gives them leisure to pur- fue those arts , which cannot be cultivated to advantage , without the ...
... reason , why Perfia has produced more writers of every kind , and chiefly poets , than all Europe together , fince their way of life gives them leisure to pur- fue those arts , which cannot be cultivated to advantage , without the ...
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... reason of late years to admire for the oppofite virtues : but they are fond of poetry , which they learned from the Perfians , and may , perhaps , before the close of the cen- tury , be as fond of a more formidable art , which they will ...
... reason of late years to admire for the oppofite virtues : but they are fond of poetry , which they learned from the Perfians , and may , perhaps , before the close of the cen- tury , be as fond of a more formidable art , which they will ...
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... reason , than because they once dropped from the pen of a fuperiour genius : one of thefe is the affertion of Ariftotle , that all poetry confifts in imitation , which has been fo frequently echoed from au- thor to author , that it ...
... reason , than because they once dropped from the pen of a fuperiour genius : one of thefe is the affertion of Ariftotle , that all poetry confifts in imitation , which has been fo frequently echoed from au- thor to author , that it ...
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