Miscellaneous Works: In Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... subject ; but on this condition , that you will communicate your thoughts to me freely when you diffent from me , or have any difficulties that you think me eapable of removing . To make use of the li- berty you give us , fays Eugenius ...
... subject ; but on this condition , that you will communicate your thoughts to me freely when you diffent from me , or have any difficulties that you think me eapable of removing . To make use of the li- berty you give us , fays Eugenius ...
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... Subject . As we find on Medals the plans of feveral buildings that are now demolished , we fee on them too the Models of many ancient Statues that are loft . There are feveral Reverses which are own- ed to be the representations of ...
... Subject . As we find on Medals the plans of feveral buildings that are now demolished , we fee on them too the Models of many ancient Statues that are loft . There are feveral Reverses which are own- ed to be the representations of ...
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... Subjects of ancient and modern Medals , we fhall find they both agree in recording the great actions and fucceffes in war , allowing ftill for the different ways of making it , and the circumstances that attended it in past ages , and ...
... Subjects of ancient and modern Medals , we fhall find they both agree in recording the great actions and fucceffes in war , allowing ftill for the different ways of making it , and the circumstances that attended it in past ages , and ...
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... Subject . But old Coins go farther in their compliments to their Emperor , as they take occafion to celebrate his diftinguishing Virtues ; not as they fhowed themselves in any particular Action , but as they fhone out in the general ...
... Subject . But old Coins go farther in their compliments to their Emperor , as they take occafion to celebrate his diftinguishing Virtues ; not as they fhowed themselves in any particular Action , but as they fhone out in the general ...
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... subject of a Volume in a couple of words . If our modern Medals are fo very prolix in their profe , they are every whit as tedious in their verse , You have fometimes a dull Epigram of four lines , This , fays Cynthio , may be of great ...
... subject of a Volume in a couple of words . If our modern Medals are fo very prolix in their profe , they are every whit as tedious in their verse , You have fometimes a dull Epigram of four lines , This , fays Cynthio , may be of great ...
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