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... design ; And all her triumphs fhrink into a coin . A narrow orb each crowded conqueft keeps : Beneath her palm here fad Judea weeps ; Now fcantier limits the proud arch confine , And scarce are feen the proftrate Nile and Rhine : A ...
... design ; And all her triumphs fhrink into a coin . A narrow orb each crowded conqueft keeps : Beneath her palm here fad Judea weeps ; Now fcantier limits the proud arch confine , And scarce are feen the proftrate Nile and Rhine : A ...
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... designs that he took from the Spintria of Tiberius . Ra- phael had thoroughly ftudied the figures on old coins . Patin tells us that Le Brun had done the fame . And it is well known that Rubens Rubens had a noble collection of medals in ...
... designs that he took from the Spintria of Tiberius . Ra- phael had thoroughly ftudied the figures on old coins . Patin tells us that Le Brun had done the fame . And it is well known that Rubens Rubens had a noble collection of medals in ...
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... designs of feveral Greek medals in particular , one might often fee the hand of an Apelles or Protogenes , were we as well acquainted with their works as we are with Titian's or Vandike's . I might here make a much greater fhow of the ...
... designs of feveral Greek medals in particular , one might often fee the hand of an Apelles or Protogenes , were we as well acquainted with their works as we are with Titian's or Vandike's . I might here make a much greater fhow of the ...
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... design muft refer to the golden age which it lively reprefents , if we fuppofe the circle that encompaffes Time , or if you please Jupiter , fignifies the finishing of the great year , and that the Phenix figures out the beginning of a ...
... design muft refer to the golden age which it lively reprefents , if we fuppofe the circle that encompaffes Time , or if you please Jupiter , fignifies the finishing of the great year , and that the Phenix figures out the beginning of a ...
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... designed so much to in- ftruct as to divert us . I have heard , fays Eugenius , that the Romans ftamped feveral coins on the fame occafion . If we follow their example , there will be no danger of deceiving pofterity : Since the more ...
... designed so much to in- ftruct as to divert us . I have heard , fays Eugenius , that the Romans ftamped feveral coins on the fame occafion . If we follow their example , there will be no danger of deceiving pofterity : Since the more ...
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Ægyptus againſt ancient Apoſtles becauſe Befides chriftians Claud Claudian confefs confideration Creech cuſtoms dæmons defcription defign Difciples Dryden Emperor enemy fame fancy fatire fays Cynthio fays Eugenius fays Philander fecond feen fenfe feveral fhall fhew fhort fide figure fince firft firſt fome France French ftand ftill ftrength fubject fuch fufferings fuppofe greateſt hand hath heathen himſelf hiſtory honour infcription Irenæus itſelf Judæa King laft laſt learned lived loft mentioned miracles modern medals moſt muſt myſelf obferve occafion old coins Ovid paffage Pagan Parthia peace perfons philofophers pleaſe poets prefent preſerved publiſhed raiſed reaſon religion reprefented rifing Roman Rome S. C. Reverſe Saviour Saviour's hiftory ſee ſeen ſeveral ſhall ſhould ſhows Silius Italicus Spanish monarchy ſpeak ſtand ſtate ſtill Tertullian thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion Trajan uſe veftes verfe Virg Virgil