Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... drefs that fuch an Emprefs delighted to be drawn in , the titles that were moft agreeable to fuch an Emperor , the flatteries that he lay most open to , the honours that he paid to his chil- dren , wives , predeceffors , friends or ...
... drefs that fuch an Emprefs delighted to be drawn in , the titles that were moft agreeable to fuch an Emperor , the flatteries that he lay most open to , the honours that he paid to his chil- dren , wives , predeceffors , friends or ...
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... Drefs among the Poets that they wear in Medals . I must confefs , I believe both the one and the other took the Mode from the ancient Greek Statuaries . It will not perhaps be an improper tranfition to pafs from the heathen gods to the ...
... Drefs among the Poets that they wear in Medals . I must confefs , I believe both the one and the other took the Mode from the ancient Greek Statuaries . It will not perhaps be an improper tranfition to pafs from the heathen gods to the ...
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... drefs . I have fometimes however been very much distasted at this way of writing , by reafon of the long Pre- faces and exordiums into which it often betrays an author . There is fo much time taken up in ceremony , that before they ...
... drefs . I have fometimes however been very much distasted at this way of writing , by reafon of the long Pre- faces and exordiums into which it often betrays an author . There is fo much time taken up in ceremony , that before they ...
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... Drefs FIG . 40 as in her Character from Concord . You may obferve in both these figures that the Veft is gathered up before them , like an Apron , which you muft fuppofe fill'd with fruits as well as the Corna pie . It is to this part ...
... Drefs FIG . 40 as in her Character from Concord . You may obferve in both these figures that the Veft is gathered up before them , like an Apron , which you muft fuppofe fill'd with fruits as well as the Corna pie . It is to this part ...
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... Drefs . It is certain Hope might have a fair pretence to White , in allufion to those that were Candidates for an employ . quem ducit biantem Cretata ambitio Perf . Sat. 5 . And how properly the Epithet of Rara agrees with her , you may ...
... Drefs . It is certain Hope might have a fair pretence to White , in allufion to those that were Candidates for an employ . quem ducit biantem Cretata ambitio Perf . Sat. 5 . And how properly the Epithet of Rara agrees with her , you may ...
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