The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 8H.D. Symonds, 1799 |
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... Pindar , THE CELEBRATED GRECIAN POET . INDAR , the Prince of Lyric Poets , was a native about the 76th Olympiad , or 520 years before Chrift . His family was of the lowest clafs . His father Scopeli- nus ( or Diophantus ) being of the ...
... Pindar , THE CELEBRATED GRECIAN POET . INDAR , the Prince of Lyric Poets , was a native about the 76th Olympiad , or 520 years before Chrift . His family was of the lowest clafs . His father Scopeli- nus ( or Diophantus ) being of the ...
Page 58
... Pindar fhould be honoured by one half of the firft - fruit offerings , annually prefented by the devout retainers of the Delphic fhrine . At the Hermonian fef- tival , a portion of the facred victim was appropriated , in the time of ...
... Pindar fhould be honoured by one half of the firft - fruit offerings , annually prefented by the devout retainers of the Delphic fhrine . At the Hermonian fef- tival , a portion of the facred victim was appropriated , in the time of ...
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... Pindar's mufe in celebrating his victories in the Grecian games . This prince obtained the prize in the Olympic and Pythic games , and was alfo victor in the chariot course . These fucceffes were celebrated by the poet , who bestowed ...
... Pindar's mufe in celebrating his victories in the Grecian games . This prince obtained the prize in the Olympic and Pythic games , and was alfo victor in the chariot course . These fucceffes were celebrated by the poet , who bestowed ...
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... Pindar was , beyond all difpute , the moft confiderable of all the nine Lyric poets ; whether we confider his vaft genius , or the beauty of his fentences and figures , for the abundance of his thoughts and the agreeable variety of his ...
... Pindar was , beyond all difpute , the moft confiderable of all the nine Lyric poets ; whether we confider his vaft genius , or the beauty of his fentences and figures , for the abundance of his thoughts and the agreeable variety of his ...
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... Pindar muft gain , by fuch an exa- mination ; his words are chofen with an habitual care , and possess a certain dignity of weight , which , the more they are contemplated , the more they are admired . - It is this magnificence of ...
... Pindar muft gain , by fuch an exa- mination ; his words are chofen with an habitual care , and possess a certain dignity of weight , which , the more they are contemplated , the more they are admired . - It is this magnificence of ...
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