The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Volume 4William Durell & Company, 1811 |
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... Perhaps by its own ruins sav'd from flame , Some bury'd marble half preserves a name ; That name , the learn'd with fierce disputes pursue , And give to Titus old Vespasian's due . Ambition sigh'd . She found it vain to trust The ...
... Perhaps by its own ruins sav'd from flame , Some bury'd marble half preserves a name ; That name , the learn'd with fierce disputes pursue , And give to Titus old Vespasian's due . Ambition sigh'd . She found it vain to trust The ...
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... perhaps a hun- dred guineas . I find , says Cynthio , that , to have a relish for ancient coins , it is necessary to have a con- tempt of the modern . But I am afraid you will never be able , with all your medallic eloquence , to ...
... perhaps a hun- dred guineas . I find , says Cynthio , that , to have a relish for ancient coins , it is necessary to have a con- tempt of the modern . But I am afraid you will never be able , with all your medallic eloquence , to ...
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... perhaps , without this assis- tance , would have found it very difficult to have in- vented such an airy species of beings , when they are obliged to put a moral virtue into colours , or to find out a proper dress for a passion . It is ...
... perhaps , without this assis- tance , would have found it very difficult to have in- vented such an airy species of beings , when they are obliged to put a moral virtue into colours , or to find out a proper dress for a passion . It is ...
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... perhaps be much more useful to universities than those collections of whale- bone and crocodile - skins in which they commonly abound . You will find it very difficult , says Cynthio , to persuade those societies of learned men to fall ...
... perhaps be much more useful to universities than those collections of whale- bone and crocodile - skins in which they commonly abound . You will find it very difficult , says Cynthio , to persuade those societies of learned men to fall ...
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... perhaps I should not have thought on . But there is another of which I am sure you could not but be sensible when you were at Rome . I must own to you it surprised me to see my Ciceroni so well acquainted with the busts and statues of ...
... perhaps I should not have thought on . But there is another of which I am sure you could not but be sensible when you were at Rome . I must own to you it surprised me to see my Ciceroni so well acquainted with the busts and statues of ...
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