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... picture of the ruins of Godstow- Nunnery , drawn , it should seem , on the spot , and worthy the hand of Paul Brill , is by no means excelled by the foregoing . Qua nudo Rofamonda humilis fub culmine tecti Marginis obfcuri fervat inane ...
... picture of the ruins of Godstow- Nunnery , drawn , it should seem , on the spot , and worthy the hand of Paul Brill , is by no means excelled by the foregoing . Qua nudo Rofamonda humilis fub culmine tecti Marginis obfcuri fervat inane ...
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... picture of a virtuous and learned man in * Novel Abregé Chronologique de l ' Hiftoire de France . tom . i . pag . 126. To this ufeful and entertaining work Voltaire has often been deeply indebted , without confeffing his obligation . + ...
... picture of a virtuous and learned man in * Novel Abregé Chronologique de l ' Hiftoire de France . tom . i . pag . 126. To this ufeful and entertaining work Voltaire has often been deeply indebted , without confeffing his obligation . + ...
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... pictures ; the selection of which chiefly conftitutes true poetry . Anhiftorian or prose- writer might fay , " Then fhall the most " diftant nations croud into my port : " a poet fets before your eyes " the fhips of uncouth form ...
... pictures ; the selection of which chiefly conftitutes true poetry . Anhiftorian or prose- writer might fay , " Then fhall the most " diftant nations croud into my port : " a poet fets before your eyes " the fhips of uncouth form ...
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... picture heightens the dif- trefs , and powerfully excites the commife- ration of the reader . Under this head , it would be unpardonable to omit a capital , and , I think , the most excellent example extant , of the beauty here intended ...
... picture heightens the dif- trefs , and powerfully excites the commife- ration of the reader . Under this head , it would be unpardonable to omit a capital , and , I think , the most excellent example extant , of the beauty here intended ...
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... picture by adding that , - In Cairo's crouded streets tɔ Th ' impatient merchant , wondering waits in vain , And Mecca faddens at the long delay . And thus , laftly , in defcribing the peftilence that deftroyed the British troops at the ...
... picture by adding that , - In Cairo's crouded streets tɔ Th ' impatient merchant , wondering waits in vain , And Mecca faddens at the long delay . And thus , laftly , in defcribing the peftilence that deftroyed the British troops at the ...
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