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- with him cannot be in their Wits.' —— Sect.
Says the elegant and learned Philostratus. XII. Heroics II.*—v—■»
HORACE
being
retired
to Preneje, a
pleasant little Town, where the Romans used ^frequently to spend some part of the Summer, writes to M. Lollius, who was afterwards ap pointed Governour to C. Cæsar; Augustus* Grandson by Julia, and was then studying Elo quence and declaiming : While you, Great Sir, your Tongue in Rome P v f ^ employ, 325.(111) Here I retir'd have read the War of Troy ; Whose wondrous Writer hath more clearly Jhown What's good or bad, should or mould not be done, Than Crantor or Chrysippus———— Book I. Epist. II.
- As for HOMER's Poetry, I am so affected
- with it, as to think it divine, and beyond the
c Reach of Man : And now I am more asto*
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nisl-.ed than ever ; not so much at the Art and Machinery of the Poem, or with that peculiar Sweetness and Charm that runs through the whole : but much more with the
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