Theognis Restitutus

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. With the Poets above mentioned, verse was the vehicle of their feelings and passions, excited as they were by the tumult of an agitated existence; Feuds, Factions, Expatriation to distant Colonies. Sudden usurpations, revolution and exile were the elements by which they were surrounded, and of whose influence they partook; and they themselves appear sometimes, to have been among the leading Spirits of these tempests; the faculty of composing animated and po pular poetry; giving to the person who applied it to party purposes, a power of producing impressions, less forcible indeed in the first instance, but more durable and diffusive than the effect of oratory.