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In der Vossischen Buchhandlung., 1785
 

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Page 46 - ... think) have ventured upon it. But there can be, I believe, none better ; and that part, of the Invocation, if it became a Heathen, is no less Necessary for a Christian Poet. A Jove principium, Afusa; and it follows then very naturally, Jovis omnia plena. The whole work may reasonably hope to be filled with a Divine Spirit, when it begins with a Prayer to be so.
Page 46 - The Custom of beginning all Poems, with a Proposition of the whole work, and an Invocation of some God for his assistance to go through with it, is so solemnly and religiously observed by all the ancient Poets, that though I could have found out a better way, I should not (I think) have ventured upon it.
Page 47 - Latini ; though generally they abuièd the Prayer, by converting it from the Deity, to the word of Men, their Princes; as...
Page 148 - cette remarque ajoute, qu'il a obfervé un grand „nombre d'autres fautes de cet Auteur, qui ne -, laifle pas' d'avoir travaillé fort utilement au refte.
Page 146 - C'«ft le premier (eminent qui fe réveille dans le cœur d'un amant maltraité, en ferment les yeux a tout ce que ce foit une honte de céder une tnaitreàe a un rival indigne, c'en eft une que de la lui difputer.
Page 73 - Vidi infelices ! Vidifti me lacrymantem ! Tune tu : rurfum homines formemus imagine diva...
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