Commentaries On Classical Learning

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Commentaries On Classical Learning
David Henry Urquhart
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Contentions on the flute, and quarrels between fhep- herds, are to us inlipid in themfelves, and tirefome by their repetition. They neither excite our curiofity, nor awaken our fym- pathy. The half-attentive reader begins with languor and Snifhes with difguft. Bion and Mofchus were contemporaries of Theocritus, the one of Smyrna, the other of Syracufe. They both wrote with eafe and elegance. Their Idyllia poffefs a pecu- liar delicacy, and their elegies are tender and fentimental.
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...e former on the death of Adonis has been much celebrated, and in- deed in general the verfes of both thefe poets feem to have been written with more care CLASSICAL LEARNING. 187 care than thofe of Theocritus, but are not wholly devoid of affe&ation.
The lover of rural fcenes will be grati- fied by the images which theyprefent him, and cannot fail to admire the fweetnefs and elegance of the poetry.
GREEK EPIGRAM.
In the modern fenfe of the word, the epigram is, of all kinds of poetry, that which approaches neared to fatire, fince it has the fame objects, cenfure and raillery.


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