Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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... These gentlemen , fays he , value themselves upon being critics in Ruft , and will undertake to tell you the different ages of it , by its colour . They are poffeffed with a kind of learned avarice , and are for getting together hoards ...
... These gentlemen , fays he , value themselves upon being critics in Ruft , and will undertake to tell you the different ages of it , by its colour . They are poffeffed with a kind of learned avarice , and are for getting together hoards ...
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... these you may add the Genies of nations , provinces , cities , high - ways , and the like Allegorical Beings . In devices of this nature one fees a pretty poetical invention , and may often find as much thought on the re- verfe of a ...
... these you may add the Genies of nations , provinces , cities , high - ways , and the like Allegorical Beings . In devices of this nature one fees a pretty poetical invention , and may often find as much thought on the re- verfe of a ...
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... these weighty fubjects ! To fet them in their natural light , let us fancy , if you please , that about a thousand years hence , fome profound author fhall write a learned treatise on the Habits of the prefent age , diftinguished into ...
... these weighty fubjects ! To fet them in their natural light , let us fancy , if you please , that about a thousand years hence , fome profound author fhall write a learned treatise on the Habits of the prefent age , diftinguished into ...
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... These are buildings which the Goths and Vandals could not demolith , that are infinitely more durable than ftone or marble , and will perhaps last as long as the earth itself . They are in short so many real monų , ments of Brafs . Quod ...
... These are buildings which the Goths and Vandals could not demolith , that are infinitely more durable than ftone or marble , and will perhaps last as long as the earth itself . They are in short so many real monų , ments of Brafs . Quod ...
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... these feveral arts and sciences . Sure , fays Cynthio , Martial had never read Vitruvius when he threw the Crier and the Architect into the fame class . Duri fi puer ingenî videtur Preconem facias vel architectum . If of dull parts the ...
... these feveral arts and sciences . Sure , fays Cynthio , Martial had never read Vitruvius when he threw the Crier and the Architect into the fame class . Duri fi puer ingenî videtur Preconem facias vel architectum . If of dull parts the ...
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