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Spence, Joseph; Tindal, Nicholas [Editor]; Dodsley, James [Oth.]
A Guide To Classical Learning: Or, Polymetis Abridged: Containing, I. By Way of Introduction, the Characters of the Latin Poets and their Work ... II. An Inquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of the Antient Artists ... Being a Work absolutely necessary, not only for the Right Understanding of the Classics, but also for forming in Young Minds a True Taste for the Beauties of Poetry, Sculpture, and Painting — London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1786

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she sees all that passes therein. Virgil says (he
ssies about by night, and sits on her palace, or
other eminence, by day
y ZEn. iv. v. 183. It is likely some low painters of old (like
some moderns) represented Ftime with eyes and ears all over her
body, even to her fingers’ ends; for which Lucian seems to ri-
dicule them, T. ii. p. 765. /En. iv. v. 195. iSi. Stat. Theb.
iii. v. 431. Fame is here represented as running on before the
chariot of Mars, which is driven by Bellona. Theb. vii.v. 73.
Met. xii'. 55. 6ii 431. ZEn. iv. v. 187. Mars (as all the great
warriors of old) had one to drive, that; he himselfmay be at full
liberty to fight#

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