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... Pindaric Odes- " The Progress of Poesy " and " The Bard ' were put before the public by Wal- pole , with whom he had become reconciled . Gray returned to Cambridge in 1761 and that year produced his Norse Poems , The Fatal Sis ...
... Pindaric Odes- " The Progress of Poesy " and " The Bard ' were put before the public by Wal- pole , with whom he had become reconciled . Gray returned to Cambridge in 1761 and that year produced his Norse Poems , The Fatal Sis ...
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... PINDAR . OLYMP . II . V. 152 . AWAKE , Æolian lyre , awake , ° And give to rapture all thy trembling strings . From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take : The laughing flowers that round them blow ...
... PINDAR . OLYMP . II . V. 152 . AWAKE , Æolian lyre , awake , ° And give to rapture all thy trembling strings . From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take : The laughing flowers that round them blow ...
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... Pindar's " Second Olympic Ode , " ll . 153–154 . 1. Awake , Æolian lyre , awake . inaccurately quotes Psalms lvii . 8 : - Gray , in a footnote , " Awake , my glory : awake , lute and harp . " The verse reads , " Awake up , my glory ...
... Pindar's " Second Olympic Ode , " ll . 153–154 . 1. Awake , Æolian lyre , awake . inaccurately quotes Psalms lvii . 8 : - Gray , in a footnote , " Awake , my glory : awake , lute and harp . " The verse reads , " Awake up , my glory ...
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... Pindar . " " Pindar styles his own poetry , with its musical accom- paniments , Æolian song , Æolian strings , the breath of the Eolian flute . " The subject and simile , as usual with Pindar , are united . The various sources of ...
... Pindar . " " Pindar styles his own poetry , with its musical accom- paniments , Æolian song , Æolian strings , the breath of the Eolian flute . " The subject and simile , as usual with Pindar , are united . The various sources of ...
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... Pindar compares himself to that bird , and his enemies to ravens that croak and clamor in vain below , while it pursues its flight , regardless of their noise . " ( Author's note . ) 121-123 . Yet shall he mount , etc. In these lines ...
... Pindar compares himself to that bird , and his enemies to ravens that croak and clamor in vain below , while it pursues its flight , regardless of their noise . " ( Author's note . ) 121-123 . Yet shall he mount , etc. In these lines ...
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