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... epitaph : -- Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul et Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H.S.E. Vir Eximius Serenissimis Regi GULIELMO Reginæque MARIÆ In Congressione ...
... epitaph : -- Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul et Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H.S.E. Vir Eximius Serenissimis Regi GULIELMO Reginæque MARIÆ In Congressione ...
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... epitaph on John and Joan . Scarcely any one of our poets has written so much and translated so little the version of Callimachus is suffi- ciently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhor- tation to Charity is eminently beautiful ...
... epitaph on John and Joan . Scarcely any one of our poets has written so much and translated so little the version of Callimachus is suffi- ciently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhor- tation to Charity is eminently beautiful ...
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... epitaph contains a kind of information which few would want , that the man for whom the tomb was erected died . There are indeed some qualities worthy of the praise ascribed to the dead , but none that were likely to exempt him from the ...
... epitaph contains a kind of information which few would want , that the man for whom the tomb was erected died . There are indeed some qualities worthy of the praise ascribed to the dead , but none that were likely to exempt him from the ...
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... epitaph , as in many others , there appears at the first view a fault which I think scarcely any beauty can compensate . The name is omitted . The end of an epitaph is to convey some account of the dead ; and to what purpose is anything ...
... epitaph , as in many others , there appears at the first view a fault which I think scarcely any beauty can compensate . The name is omitted . The end of an epitaph is to convey some account of the dead ; and to what purpose is anything ...
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... epitaph is wholly without elevation , and contains nothing striking or particular ; but the poet is not to be blamed for the defect of his subject . He said perhaps the best that could be said . There are , however , some defects which ...
... epitaph is wholly without elevation , and contains nothing striking or particular ; but the poet is not to be blamed for the defect of his subject . He said perhaps the best that could be said . There are , however , some defects which ...
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