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... fuch enormous weight Ne'er yet fuftain'd , nor were the fatal fheers , So oft employ'd , of unrelenting Fate , To fnap the vital threads that hold our warriors years . Inhuman Discord , red with carnage , shakes Her flaming torch , and ...
... fuch enormous weight Ne'er yet fuftain'd , nor were the fatal fheers , So oft employ'd , of unrelenting Fate , To fnap the vital threads that hold our warriors years . Inhuman Discord , red with carnage , shakes Her flaming torch , and ...
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... fuch judgment , and has fuch expreffion in her looks , her actions , and her cadence , that he even in- terests those who are unacquainted with the language . You will here fee fome fingular fights ; the proceffion of the knights of the ...
... fuch judgment , and has fuch expreffion in her looks , her actions , and her cadence , that he even in- terests those who are unacquainted with the language . You will here fee fome fingular fights ; the proceffion of the knights of the ...
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... fuch lively impreffions on the heart . When one examines his works well , and compares them with the Gothic productions of Dante , with the abfurdities of Ariofto , with the extra- vagances of Marini , and with the puerilities of Taffo ...
... fuch lively impreffions on the heart . When one examines his works well , and compares them with the Gothic productions of Dante , with the abfurdities of Ariofto , with the extra- vagances of Marini , and with the puerilities of Taffo ...
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... and those who can admire fuch productions have a mean and depraved taste . The taste of the age of Lewis XIV . no longer exists in France : The Dutch pictures F 2 pictures are thofe which are most in fashion , and [ 67 1.
... and those who can admire fuch productions have a mean and depraved taste . The taste of the age of Lewis XIV . no longer exists in France : The Dutch pictures F 2 pictures are thofe which are most in fashion , and [ 67 1.
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... fuch collections as thofe of Verfailles , the Luxembourg , and the Palais Royal , to fuffer them- felves to be led away by a mode the moft difgraceful for them that they have ever adopted . Rubens , to whom nature by mif take gave birth ...
... fuch collections as thofe of Verfailles , the Luxembourg , and the Palais Royal , to fuffer them- felves to be led away by a mode the moft difgraceful for them that they have ever adopted . Rubens , to whom nature by mif take gave birth ...
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