Miscellaneous Works: In Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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Page 16
... greater Ho- nours on Pindar's Jockies , than on the Poet him - ` felf . But by this time I fuppofe you have drawn up all your medallic people , and indeed they make a much more formidable body than I could have imagined . You have fhewn ...
... greater Ho- nours on Pindar's Jockies , than on the Poet him - ` felf . But by this time I fuppofe you have drawn up all your medallic people , and indeed they make a much more formidable body than I could have imagined . You have fhewn ...
Page 24
... greater tafte of its Antiquities , and have fixed in my memory several of the ruins that I have now for- gotten . For my part , fays Cynthio , I think there are at Rome enow modern works of Architecture to employ any reasonable man . I ...
... greater tafte of its Antiquities , and have fixed in my memory several of the ruins that I have now for- gotten . For my part , fays Cynthio , I think there are at Rome enow modern works of Architecture to employ any reasonable man . I ...
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... greater variety of epithets : So that you often meet with little hints and fuggeftions in a Poet that give a great illuftration to the ftoms , actions , ornaments , and all kinds of Anti- quities that are to be met with on ancient Coins ...
... greater variety of epithets : So that you often meet with little hints and fuggeftions in a Poet that give a great illuftration to the ftoms , actions , ornaments , and all kinds of Anti- quities that are to be met with on ancient Coins ...
Page 94
... greater number . Horace has turn'd this comparison into ridicule feventeen hundred years ago . Laudat Brutum , laudatque cohortem , Solem Afia Brutum appellat- Hor . Sat 7. Lib . 1 . He praiseth Brutus much and all his train ; He calls ...
... greater number . Horace has turn'd this comparison into ridicule feventeen hundred years ago . Laudat Brutum , laudatque cohortem , Solem Afia Brutum appellat- Hor . Sat 7. Lib . 1 . He praiseth Brutus much and all his train ; He calls ...
Page 141
... greater beauty to their Expreffions . His obfcurities are indeed fometimes affected , but they generally arife from the remotenefs of the Cuftoms , Per- fons and Things he alludes to as Satire is for this reafon more difficult to be ...
... greater beauty to their Expreffions . His obfcurities are indeed fometimes affected , but they generally arife from the remotenefs of the Cuftoms , Per- fons and Things he alludes to as Satire is for this reafon more difficult to be ...
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