The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Band 3D. A. Talboys, 1830 |
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... reverse of a medal as in a canto of Spenser . Not to interrupt you , says Eugenius , I fancy it is this use of medals that has recommended them to several history painters , who perhaps , without this assistance , would have found it ...
... reverse of a medal as in a canto of Spenser . Not to interrupt you , says Eugenius , I fancy it is this use of medals that has recommended them to several history painters , who perhaps , without this assistance , would have found it ...
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... , I think there is a great affinity between coins and poetry , and that your medallist and critic are much nearer related than the world generally imagines . A reverse often clears up the passage of an old poet , as DIALOGUES ON MEDALS .
... , I think there is a great affinity between coins and poetry , and that your medallist and critic are much nearer related than the world generally imagines . A reverse often clears up the passage of an old poet , as DIALOGUES ON MEDALS .
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... reverse . I could be longer on this head , but I fear I have already tired you . Nay , says Eugenius , since you have gone so far with us , we must beg you to finish your lecture , especially since you are on a subject that I dare ...
... reverse . I could be longer on this head , but I fear I have already tired you . Nay , says Eugenius , since you have gone so far with us , we must beg you to finish your lecture , especially since you are on a subject that I dare ...
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... reverse of an emperor's coin , designed as a compliment to him from the senate of Rome . I meet with the same metaphor in ancient poets , to express protection or defence . I conclude , therefore , that this medal compliments the ...
... reverse of an emperor's coin , designed as a compliment to him from the senate of Rome . I meet with the same metaphor in ancient poets , to express protection or defence . I conclude , therefore , that this medal compliments the ...
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... are some of those imaginary persons you told us of last night , that inhabit old coins , and appear nowhere else but on the reverse of a medal . Their proper country , says Philander , is the breast DIALOGUES ON MEDALS . 83 DIALOGUE II. ...
... are some of those imaginary persons you told us of last night , that inhabit old coins , and appear nowhere else but on the reverse of a medal . Their proper country , says Philander , is the breast DIALOGUES ON MEDALS . 83 DIALOGUE II. ...
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ancient antique Antoninus Pius apostles appear arms army beautiful Cæsar Christianity church CLAUD Claudian Commodus confess conversation cornu CREECH disciples dress DRYDEN emblem emperor empire enemy Evangelists fancy farther figure France French give gods hæc hand hath head heathen honour Horace Ibid inscription Irenæus Jews Judæa Julian the apostate Julius Cæsar kind king labarum Latin poets learned pagans lived martyrs medallists mentioned miracles modern medals monarchy multitude nation nature occasion old coins old Roman Origen OVID pagan Parthia particular passage peace persons posture present prince quæ reason religion Reverse of Adrian Rome S. C. Reverse Saviour Saviour's history says Cynthio says Eugenius says Philander second series Silius Italicus Spain Spanish Spanish monarchy STATIUS suppose tell Tertullian thee third series thou thought tibi tion Trajan truth verse Victory VIRG Virgil virtues whole
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Seite 43 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Seite 57 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Seite 93 - The man resolved and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries , The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Seite 56 - Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears, The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years ! To gain Pescennius one employs his schemes, One grasps a Cecrops in ecstatic dreams.
Seite 207 - You have yet an opportunity, by God's blessing, to secure to you and your posterity the quiet enjoyment of your religion and liberties, if you are not wanting to yourselves, but will exert the ancient vigour of the English nation : but I tell you plainly, my opinion is, if you do not lay hold on this occasion, you have no reason to hope for another.
Seite 170 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Seite 53 - ... valescat, sic ego nunc, quoniam haec ratio plerumque videtur tristior esse quibus non est tractata, retroque volgus abhorret ab hac, volui tibi suaviloquenti carminé Pierio rationem exponere nostram et quasi musaeo dulci contingere melle...
Seite 170 - ... those of their country, in the several marks of sorrow they have set on this figure. The Psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture. ' By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion...
Seite 55 - Some felt the silent stroke of mould'ring age, Some hostile fury, some religious rage. Barbarian blindness, Christian zeal conspire, And Papal piety, and Gothic fire.
Seite 70 - ... particulars of an emperor's story into the several years of his reign : or, where they do it, they often differ in their several periods. Here, therefore, it is much safer to quote a medal than an author, for in this case you do not appeal to a Suetonius or a Lainpridius, but to the emperor himself, or to the whole body of a Roman senate. Besides that, a coin is in no danger of having its characters altered by copiers and transcribers.