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Excerpt from A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Vol. 13: Containing Cook's Hesiod; Fawkes's Theocritus, Anacreon, Bion, Mosehus, Sappho, Musaeus and Apollonius Rhodius; The Rape of Helen; Creech's Lucretius; And Grainger's Tibullus
The pious exclamation again& the vices of his own times, in the beginning of the iron age, and the manner in which the defcription of that age is wrote, molt of the verbs being in the future tonfe, give us room to imagine he lived when the world had but juft departed from their primitive virtue, juft as the race of heroes was at an end, and men were funk into all that is bafe and wicked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
