Miscellaneous Works: In Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... fierce difputes pursue , And give to Titus old Vefpafian's due . Ambition figh'd . She found it vain to truft . The faithlefs Column , and the crumbling Bust ; A 3 Huge Huge Moles whofe shadow stretch'd from fhore to fore , [5] ...
... fierce difputes pursue , And give to Titus old Vefpafian's due . Ambition figh'd . She found it vain to truft . The faithlefs Column , and the crumbling Bust ; A 3 Huge Huge Moles whofe shadow stretch'd from fhore to fore , [5] ...
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... give us , fays Eugenius , I must tell you what I believe furprises all beginners as well as myfelf . We are apt to think your Medallifts . a little fantaftical in the different prices they fet . upon their Coins without any regard to ...
... give us , fays Eugenius , I must tell you what I believe furprises all beginners as well as myfelf . We are apt to think your Medallifts . a little fantaftical in the different prices they fet . upon their Coins without any regard to ...
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... give me leave , fays Cynthio , to reject this laft ufe of Medals . I de not think it worth while to trouble myself with a perfon's name or face that receives all his reputa- tion from the mint , and would never have been known in the ...
... give me leave , fays Cynthio , to reject this laft ufe of Medals . I de not think it worth while to trouble myself with a perfon's name or face that receives all his reputa- tion from the mint , and would never have been known in the ...
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... give a very great light to hiftory , in confirming fuch paffages as are true in old Authors , in fettling fuch as are told after different manners , and in recording fuch as have been omitted . In this cafe a cabi- net of Medals is a ...
... give a very great light to hiftory , in confirming fuch paffages as are true in old Authors , in fettling fuch as are told after different manners , and in recording fuch as have been omitted . In this cafe a cabi- net of Medals is a ...
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... gives a man the first rank in the republic of letters , and recommends him to the world for a perfon of various reading and pro- found erudition . You must always give your men of great reading leave to fhow their talents on the meaneft ...
... gives a man the first rank in the republic of letters , and recommends him to the world for a perfon of various reading and pro- found erudition . You must always give your men of great reading leave to fhow their talents on the meaneft ...
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