Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... paffages as are true in old Authors , in fettling fuch as are told after different manners , and in recording fuch as have been omitted . In this cafe a cabi- net of Medals is a body of history . It was indeed the best way in the world ...
... paffages as are true in old Authors , in fettling fuch as are told after different manners , and in recording fuch as have been omitted . In this cafe a cabi- net of Medals is a body of history . It was indeed the best way in the world ...
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... paffage of an old poet , as the poet often ferves to unriddle a reverse . I could be longer on this head , but I fear I have already tired you . Nay , fays ' Eugenius , fince you have gone fo far with us , we muft beg you to finish your ...
... paffage of an old poet , as the poet often ferves to unriddle a reverse . I could be longer on this head , but I fear I have already tired you . Nay , fays ' Eugenius , fince you have gone fo far with us , we muft beg you to finish your ...
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... paffages among the Poets that relate to the particular device of a Medal . I wonder , fays Eugenius , that your Medallifis have not been as diligent in fearching the Poets as the Hiftorians , fince I find they are fo capable of ...
... paffages among the Poets that relate to the particular device of a Medal . I wonder , fays Eugenius , that your Medallifis have not been as diligent in fearching the Poets as the Hiftorians , fince I find they are fo capable of ...
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... paffage , I would have the reverse you have shown us ftamp- ed on the fide of it . The interpreters of Seneca , fays Philander , will underftand the precedent ver- fes as a defcription of Venus , though in my opi- nion there is only the ...
... paffage , I would have the reverse you have shown us ftamp- ed on the fide of it . The interpreters of Seneca , fays Philander , will underftand the precedent ver- fes as a defcription of Venus , though in my opi- nion there is only the ...
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... paffage , than out of any feem- ing defign to abufe him . Our English Poets on the contrary fhow a kind of malice prepenfe in their Satires , and inftead of bringing in the perfon to give light to any part of the Poem , let you fee they ...
... paffage , than out of any feem- ing defign to abufe him . Our English Poets on the contrary fhow a kind of malice prepenfe in their Satires , and inftead of bringing in the perfon to give light to any part of the Poem , let you fee they ...
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