A Bibliographical Dictionary; Containing a Chronological Account ... of ... Books: In All Departments of Literature ... with Biographical Anecdotes ... the Whole of the Fourth Edition of Dr. Harwood's View of the Classics, with Innumerable Additions and Amendments. To which are Added, an Essay on Bibliography ... and an Account of the Best English Translation of Each Greek and Latin Classic ...

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W. Baynes, 1804
 

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Page 198 - haughty head to fly. And Maenas, when with ivy bridles bound, She led the spotted Lynx, then Evion rung around; Evion from woods and floods repairing Echo's sound." Could such rude lines a Roman mouth become, Were any manly greatness left in Rome
Page 282 - that this entertaining writer, whose language is very easy and elegant, were introduced into our schools; or that those who begin to learn the Greek language, would read Polyaenus. They would meet with few difficulties, and would be highly entertained and improved.
Page 107 - This is supposed to be the ancient Missal amended and purged by St. Isidore, archbishop of Sevil, and ordered by the council of Toledo to be used in all churches, every one of which before that time had a Missal peculiar to itself. The Moors afterwards committing great ravages in Spain, destroying the churches, and throwing, every thing there, both civil and sacred, into
Page 9 - He termed these miscellanies Saturnalia, because, during the vacation observed on these feasts of Saturn, he collected the principal Literati of Rome in his own house, and conversed with them on all kinds of subjects, and afterwards set down what appeared
Page 102 - A Fragment attributed to Methodius, concerning the State of the Dead, from mss. of Dr. Grabe, with the original Greek, done into English, with
Page 198 - and Bassaris who slew The scornful calf, with sword advanc'd on high, Made from his neck
Page 271 - lived about the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century. His
Page 205 - that it is almost impossible for the best scholar to read Petronius in any other edition.

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