Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen1A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... bard , which , befide natural talents , re- quired more culture and exercife than any other known art . Bards were capital per- fons at every festival and at every folem- nity . Their fongs , which , by recording the atchievements of ...
... bard , which , befide natural talents , re- quired more culture and exercife than any other known art . Bards were capital per- fons at every festival and at every folem- nity . Their fongs , which , by recording the atchievements of ...
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... bards were as common as potters or joiners , and as liable to envy . Demodo- cus is mentioned by Homer as a cele- brated bard ( a ) ; and Phemius , another bard , is introduced by him deprecating the wrath of Ulyffes , in the following ...
... bards were as common as potters or joiners , and as liable to envy . Demodo- cus is mentioned by Homer as a cele- brated bard ( a ) ; and Phemius , another bard , is introduced by him deprecating the wrath of Ulyffes , in the following ...
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... bards . The following quo- tation is from Ammianus Marcellinus ( b ) . " Bardi quidem fortia virorum illuftrium " facta , heroicis compofita verfibus , cum " dulcibus lyrae modulis , cantitarunt . " We have for our authority Father ...
... bards . The following quo- tation is from Ammianus Marcellinus ( b ) . " Bardi quidem fortia virorum illuftrium " facta , heroicis compofita verfibus , cum " dulcibus lyrae modulis , cantitarunt . " We have for our authority Father ...
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... Bards were the only hiftorians before writing was introduced . Tacitus ( a ) fays , that the fongs of the German bards were their only annals . And Joannes Magnus , Archbishop of Upfal , acknowledges , that in compiling his hiftory of ...
... Bards were the only hiftorians before writing was introduced . Tacitus ( a ) fays , that the fongs of the German bards were their only annals . And Joannes Magnus , Archbishop of Upfal , acknowledges , that in compiling his hiftory of ...
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... bards : which diftinguish- es the profeffion of a poet from that of a bard . Homer , in a lax fenfe , may be termed a bard ; for in that character he ftrolled from feast to feaft . But he was not a bard in the original fense : he in ...
... bards : which diftinguish- es the profeffion of a poet from that of a bard . Homer , in a lax fenfe , may be termed a bard ; for in that character he ftrolled from feast to feaft . But he was not a bard in the original fense : he in ...
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