Essays on Various Subjects: As They Were Publish'd in the Weekly Essay, Or Middlesex JournalG. Smith; and sold by W. Lewis; J. and J. Fox; J. Jackson; and T. Cooper, 1738 - Antiquities - 167 pages |
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Page 5 - C'eft de lui que nous vient cet art ingénieux , De peindre la parole & de parler aux yeux, Et par les traits divers de figures tracées , Donner de la couleur & du corps aux pcnfées.
Page 95 - Outflione the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous eaft with richeft hand •Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted fat, by merit...
Page 125 - Safe in her sides the hecatomb they stow'd, Then, swiftly sailing, cut the liquid road. The host to expiate, next the king prepares, 410 With pure lustrations, and with solemn prayers.
Page 153 - probably undermin'd with fire, for we concluded ' it to be hollow by the found it made under our ' feet. In the midft of this plain ftands a high ' hill, in the fhape of a fugar loaf...
Page 58 - SOME time fmce a venerable old man, who had pafTed all •the offices, in one of the chief towns in Holland, with honour •and reputation, and had gained great riches without reproach, had fptne thoughts 'of retiring for the reft of his days to his country feat.
Page 59 - Ladies and gentlemen, I heartily thank you for this favour ; it is time for one of my age to withdraw ; but I hope thofe who are difpofed for dancing will accept of a ball which I have ordered to be prepared for them.
Page 141 - tis faid, the Rebel Giants lie, .And, when to move th' incumbent load they try, Afcending vapours on the day prevail, The fun looks fickly, and the skies grow pale.
Page 5 - They firft by found, in various lines defign'd, Expreft the meaning of the thinking mind, The power of words by figures rude convey'd, And ufeful fcience eyerlafting made.
Page 150 - This ftrange accident occafion'da lofs long fince deplor'd by the learned world, that of the famous fliny, who being at that time commander of the Roman fleet at Mifeno, with his ufual curiofity, immediately fet fail for the place where the...
Page 59 - ... was brought in, a melodious concert of an agreeable variety of inftruments was heard in the next room...