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... figure a man would make in the republic of letters , should he appeal to your university wardrobe , when they expect ... figures of several instruments of music , mathematics , and mechanics . One might make an entire galley out of the ...
... figure a man would make in the republic of letters , should he appeal to your university wardrobe , when they expect ... figures of several instruments of music , mathematics , and mechanics . One might make an entire galley out of the ...
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... a long discourse on the figure and nature of horn , to show it was impossible to have found out a fitter emblem for plenty than the cornu- * Vossius de viribus Rythmi . copia . These are a sort of authors who scorn 18 DIALOGUES ON MEDALS .
... a long discourse on the figure and nature of horn , to show it was impossible to have found out a fitter emblem for plenty than the cornu- * Vossius de viribus Rythmi . copia . These are a sort of authors who scorn 18 DIALOGUES ON MEDALS .
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... figures . A man may see a meta- phor or an allegory in a picture , as well as read them in a description . When ... figure is the most perfect . It may likewise signify the immortal reputation that the emperor has acquired by his ...
... figures . A man may see a meta- phor or an allegory in a picture , as well as read them in a description . When ... figure is the most perfect . It may likewise signify the immortal reputation that the emperor has acquired by his ...
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... figure of an old rostrum , and has the greatest esteem imaginable for Homer , because he has given us the fashion of ... figures in rhetoric , before they were invented . I do not question , says Philander , were it possible for > 1 ...
... figure of an old rostrum , and has the greatest esteem imaginable for Homer , because he has given us the fashion of ... figures in rhetoric , before they were invented . I do not question , says Philander , were it possible for > 1 ...
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... figure in verse as on coins . It often happens , too , that the poet and the senate of Rome have both chosen the same topic to flatter their emperor upon , and have sometimes fallen upon the same thought . It is certain , they both of ...
... figure in verse as on coins . It often happens , too , that the poet and the senate of Rome have both chosen the same topic to flatter their emperor upon , and have sometimes fallen upon the same thought . It is certain , they both of ...
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Page 439 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Page 2 - Statesman, yet friend to truth ; of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who ga'in'd no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, And prais'd, unenvied, by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 32 - The man resolv'd, and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries : The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles. And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Page 258 - Bajan mole, Rais'd on the seas, the surges to control — At once comes tumbling down the rocky wall; Prone to the deep, the stones disjointed fall Of the vast pile; the scatter'd ocean flies; Black sands...
Page 95 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Page 190 - ... this nation. The English and French, who always use the same words in verse as in ordinary conversation, are forced to raise their language with metaphors and figures, or, by the pompousness of the whole phrase, to wear off any littleness that appears in the particular parts that compose it. This makes our blank verse, where there is no rhyme to support the expression, extremely difficult to...
Page 452 - Georgics; where we receive more strong and lively ideas of things from his words, than we could have done from the objects themselves; and find our imaginations more affected by his descriptions, than they would have been by the very sight of what he describes.
Page 303 - When a man sees the prodigious pains and expence that our fore- fathers have been at in these barbarous buildings, one cannot but fancy to himself what miracles of architecture they would have left us, had they only been instructed in the right way...
Page 153 - Vain fool, and coward!" said the lofty maid, " Caught in the train, which thou thyself hast laid ! On others practise thy Ligurian arts : Thin stratagems, and tricks of little hearts, Are lost on me: nor shalt thou safe retire, With vaunting lies to thy fallacious sire.
Page 71 - The coat of arms by proud Mezentius worn, Now on a naked snag in triumph borne, Was hung on high, and glitter'd from afar, A trophy sacred to the God of War. Above his arms, fix'd on the leafless wood, Appear'd his plumy crest, besmear'd with blood...