Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... opinion contributes rather to make a man learned than wife , and is neither capable of pleaf- ing the understanding or imagination . I know there are feveral fupercilious Critics that will treat an author with the greateft contempt ...
... opinion contributes rather to make a man learned than wife , and is neither capable of pleaf- ing the understanding or imagination . I know there are feveral fupercilious Critics that will treat an author with the greateft contempt ...
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... opinion of feveral learned men concerning the ufe of the Shoulder - knot . Such a one mistaken in his account of the Sur- tout , & c . I must confefs , fays Eugenius , interrupting him , the knowledge of thefe affairs is in itself very ...
... opinion of feveral learned men concerning the ufe of the Shoulder - knot . Such a one mistaken in his account of the Sur- tout , & c . I must confefs , fays Eugenius , interrupting him , the knowledge of thefe affairs is in itself very ...
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... opinion , for to tell you truly , when I was at Rome , I took occafion to buy up many Imperial Medals that have any affinity with paffages of the ancient Poets . So that I have by me a fort of poetical Cafh , which I fancy I could count ...
... opinion , for to tell you truly , when I was at Rome , I took occafion to buy up many Imperial Medals that have any affinity with paffages of the ancient Poets . So that I have by me a fort of poetical Cafh , which I fancy I could count ...
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... opinion of the Deity that is described in the fol- lowing verfes of Seneca , who would have her propitious to the marriage of Jafon and Creufa . He mentions her by her qualities , and not by her name . Alperi Martis fanguineas quæ ...
... opinion of the Deity that is described in the fol- lowing verfes of Seneca , who would have her propitious to the marriage of Jafon and Creufa . He mentions her by her qualities , and not by her name . Alperi Martis fanguineas quæ ...
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... opinion among them , that the Phoenix renew'd herself at the beginning of the great year , and the return of the Golden Age . This opinion I find touched upon in a cou- ple of lines in Claudian . Quicquid ab externis ales longæva ...
... opinion among them , that the Phoenix renew'd herself at the beginning of the great year , and the return of the Golden Age . This opinion I find touched upon in a cou- ple of lines in Claudian . Quicquid ab externis ales longæva ...
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