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Akenside, Mark, 1721-1770

"Poetical Works of Akenside"

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--_Cic. Philipp_. ii. 12.

ENDNOTE H.
'_Where Virtue rising from the awful depth
Of Truth's mysterious bosom_,' etc.--P. 20.
According to the opinion of those who assert moral obligation to be
founded on an immutable and universal law; and that which is usually
called the moral sense, to be determined by the peculiar temper of
the imagination and the earliest associations of ideas.

ENDNOTE I.
'_Lyceum_.'--P. 21.
The school of Aristotle.

ENDNOTE J.
'_Academus_.'--P. 21.
The school of Plato.

ENDNOTE K.
'_Ilissus_.'--P. 21.
One of the rivers on which Athens was situated. Plato, in some of
his finest dialogues, lays the scene of the conversation with
Socrates on its banks.
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BOOK SECOND.

ENDNOTE L
'_At last the Muses rose_,' etc.--P. 22.
About the age of Hugh Capet, founder of the third race of French
kings, the poets of Provence were in high reputation; a sort of
strolling bards or rhapsodists, who went about the courts of princes
and noblemen, entertaining them at festivals with music and poetry.
They attempted both the epic, ode, and satire; and abounded in a
wild and fantastic vein of fable, partly allegorical, and partly
founded on traditionary legends of the Saracen wars.


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