Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... Gods , Emprors , 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 , The facred Ruft of twice ten hundred years ...
... Gods , Emprors , 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 , The facred Ruft of twice ten hundred years ...
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... gods and wrestlers . Nay you have con- jured up perfons that exift no where elfe but on old coins , and have made our Paffions and Vir- tues and Vices vifible . I could never have thought that a cabinet of Medals had been fo well ...
... gods and wrestlers . Nay you have con- jured up perfons that exift no where elfe but on old coins , and have made our Paffions and Vir- tues and Vices vifible . I could never have thought that a cabinet of Medals had been fo well ...
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... Gods that were worshipped in them , are perished many hundred years ago . Or if there are ftill any foundations or ruines of former edifices , you may learn from Coins what was their Archi- tecture when they ftood whole and entire ...
... Gods that were worshipped in them , are perished many hundred years ago . Or if there are ftill any foundations or ruines of former edifices , you may learn from Coins what was their Archi- tecture when they ftood whole and entire ...
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... ancient Greek Statuaries . It will not perhaps be an improper tranfition to pafs from the heathen gods to the feveral monsters of antiquity , as as Chimeras , Gorgons , Sphinxes , and many others 32 Dialogues upon the Usefulness.
... ancient Greek Statuaries . It will not perhaps be an improper tranfition to pafs from the heathen gods to the feveral monsters of antiquity , as as Chimeras , Gorgons , Sphinxes , and many others 32 Dialogues upon the Usefulness.
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... God , And checks his arm diftain'd with blood , Who joins in leagues the jarring lands , The horn of Plenty fills her hands . The description , fays Eugenius , is a copy of the figure we have before us : and for the future , in- ftead ...
... God , And checks his arm diftain'd with blood , Who joins in leagues the jarring lands , The horn of Plenty fills her hands . The description , fays Eugenius , is a copy of the figure we have before us : and for the future , in- ftead ...
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