The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 8H.D. Symonds, 1799 |
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... ancient , ftrong , and confiderable town in the French Netherlands . The fortifications were conftructed by the celebrated Vauban , and were , therefore , in high eftimation . It is feated on the river Scheld , which not only divides it ...
... ancient , ftrong , and confiderable town in the French Netherlands . The fortifications were conftructed by the celebrated Vauban , and were , therefore , in high eftimation . It is feated on the river Scheld , which not only divides it ...
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... ancients may be too fervile ; but if a good tranflator deferves praife , Boileau deferves more ; he certainly does not fall below his originals , and , confidering when he wrote , has a greater merit ftill . By his imitations , he held ...
... ancients may be too fervile ; but if a good tranflator deferves praife , Boileau deferves more ; he certainly does not fall below his originals , and , confidering when he wrote , has a greater merit ftill . By his imitations , he held ...
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... ancients by the name of Idyllia , or Idylls , in order to exprefs the finallness and variety of their natures . His works , in the language of modern times , would have been entitled mifcellanies , or poems on feveral occa- fions . The ...
... ancients by the name of Idyllia , or Idylls , in order to exprefs the finallness and variety of their natures . His works , in the language of modern times , would have been entitled mifcellanies , or poems on feveral occa- fions . The ...
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... ancients were greatly attached , and in which they implicitly confided : By a prophetic poppy - leaf I found You chang'd affection , for it gave no found , Though in my hand , ftruck hollow as it lay , But quickly wither'd like your ...
... ancients were greatly attached , and in which they implicitly confided : By a prophetic poppy - leaf I found You chang'd affection , for it gave no found , Though in my hand , ftruck hollow as it lay , But quickly wither'd like your ...
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... ancient and renowned part of our kingdom . BIOGRAPHY . The first volume of a New Biographical Dictionary , by DR . AIKIN , and the late DR . ENFIELD , promises fo well , that upon its completion it will be the best work of the kind in ...
... ancient and renowned part of our kingdom . BIOGRAPHY . The first volume of a New Biographical Dictionary , by DR . AIKIN , and the late DR . ENFIELD , promises fo well , that upon its completion it will be the best work of the kind in ...
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