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... Gods , Emp'rors , Heroes , Sages , Beauties lie . With fharpen'd fight pale antiquaries pore , Th ' infcription value , but the ruft adore : This , the blue varnish , that , the green endears , To The facred ruft of twice ten hundred ...
... Gods , Emp'rors , Heroes , Sages , Beauties lie . With fharpen'd fight pale antiquaries pore , Th ' infcription value , but the ruft adore : This , the blue varnish , that , the green endears , To The facred ruft of twice ten hundred ...
Page vii
... gods , and godlike heroes rife to view , And all her faded garlands bloom anew . Nor blush , those studies thy regard engage : Thefe pleas'd the fathers of poetic rage ; The verfe and fculpture bore an equal part , And art reflected ...
... gods , and godlike heroes rife to view , And all her faded garlands bloom anew . Nor blush , those studies thy regard engage : Thefe pleas'd the fathers of poetic rage ; The verfe and fculpture bore an equal part , And art reflected ...
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... gods and wreft- lers . Nay you have conjured up perfons that exift no where elfe but on old coins , and have made our paffions and virtues and vices vifible . I could never have thought- that a cabinet of medals had been fo well peopled ...
... gods and wreft- lers . Nay you have conjured up perfons that exift no where elfe but on old coins , and have made our paffions and virtues and vices vifible . I could never have thought- that a cabinet of medals had been fo well peopled ...
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... gods that were worshipped in them , are perifhed many hundred years ago . Or if there are ftill any foundations or ruins of former edifices , you may learn from coins what was their architecture when they stood whole and entire . These ...
... gods that were worshipped in them , are perifhed many hundred years ago . Or if there are ftill any foundations or ruins of former edifices , you may learn from coins what was their architecture when they stood whole and entire . These ...
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... gods to the feveral monsters of antiquity , as Chimeras , Gorgons , Sphinxes , and many others that make the fame figure in verfe as on coins . It It often happens too , that the poet and the fenate of Rome have both chosen the fame ...
... gods to the feveral monsters of antiquity , as Chimeras , Gorgons , Sphinxes , and many others that make the fame figure in verfe as on coins . It It often happens too , that the poet and the fenate of Rome have both chosen the fame ...
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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