The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Volume 4William Durell & Company, 1811 |
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... buildings of old Rome . There is an ingenious gentleman of our own nation extremely well versed in this study , who has a design of publishing the whole history of architecture , with its several improvements and de- cays , as it is to ...
... buildings of old Rome . There is an ingenious gentleman of our own nation extremely well versed in this study , who has a design of publishing the whole history of architecture , with its several improvements and de- cays , as it is to ...
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... buildings on the best preserved medals . You here see the copies of such ports and triumphal arches as there are not the least traces of in the places where they once stood . You have here the models of several ancient temples , though ...
... buildings on the best preserved medals . You here see the copies of such ports and triumphal arches as there are not the least traces of in the places where they once stood . You have here the models of several ancient temples , though ...
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... . I have read an author of this taste , that com- pares a ragged coin to a tattered colours . But to come again to our subject . As we find on medals the plans of several buildings that are now demolish- ed DIALOGUES ON MEDALS . 23.
... . I have read an author of this taste , that com- pares a ragged coin to a tattered colours . But to come again to our subject . As we find on medals the plans of several buildings that are now demolish- ed DIALOGUES ON MEDALS . 23.
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Joseph Addison Thomas Tickell. the plans of several buildings that are now demolish- ed , we see on them too the models of many ancient statues that are now lost . There are several re- verses which are owned to be the representation of ...
Joseph Addison Thomas Tickell. the plans of several buildings that are now demolish- ed , we see on them too the models of many ancient statues that are now lost . There are several re- verses which are owned to be the representation of ...
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... buildings , and a thousand other pieces of antiquity were melted down in those barbarous ages , that thought figures and letters only served to spoil the gold that was charged with them . Your medallists look on this destruction of ...
... buildings , and a thousand other pieces of antiquity were melted down in those barbarous ages , that thought figures and letters only served to spoil the gold that was charged with them . Your medallists look on this destruction of ...
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