Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... fhew you the actions of an Emperor , but at the fame time mark out the year in which they were performed . Every exploit has its date fet to it . A feries of an Emperor's Coins is his life digefted into annals . Hiftorians feldom break ...
... fhew you the actions of an Emperor , but at the fame time mark out the year in which they were performed . Every exploit has its date fet to it . A feries of an Emperor's Coins is his life digefted into annals . Hiftorians feldom break ...
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... fhew his ftrength . But there is one advantage , fays he , turning to Philander , that feems to me very confiderable , although your Me- dalifts feldom throw it into the account , which is the great help to memory one finds in Medals ...
... fhew his ftrength . But there is one advantage , fays he , turning to Philander , that feems to me very confiderable , although your Me- dalifts feldom throw it into the account , which is the great help to memory one finds in Medals ...
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... fhew us the fame face on an old Coin that we faw in the Statue . He would discover a Commodus through the difguife of the club and lion's skin , and find out fuch a one to be Livia that was dreffed up like a Ceres . Let a bust be never ...
... fhew us the fame face on an old Coin that we faw in the Statue . He would discover a Commodus through the difguife of the club and lion's skin , and find out fuch a one to be Livia that was dreffed up like a Ceres . Let a bust be never ...
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... fhew it was impoffible to have found out a fitter emblem for plenty than the Cornu - copia . These are a fort of authors who fcorn to take up with ap- pearances , and fancy an interpretation vulgar when it is natural . What could have ...
... fhew it was impoffible to have found out a fitter emblem for plenty than the Cornu - copia . These are a fort of authors who fcorn to take up with ap- pearances , and fancy an interpretation vulgar when it is natural . What could have ...
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... fhew us that no virtue is more active than Gratitude . May not we here fay with Lucretius ? Qua bene & eximie quanquam difpofta ferantur , Sunt longè tamen à verâ ratione repulfa . It is an eafy thing , fays Eugenius , to find out ...
... fhew us that no virtue is more active than Gratitude . May not we here fay with Lucretius ? Qua bene & eximie quanquam difpofta ferantur , Sunt longè tamen à verâ ratione repulfa . It is an eafy thing , fays Eugenius , to find out ...
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