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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1885 Excerpt: ... DIALOGUES UPON THE USEFULNESS OF ANCIENT MEDALS ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO THE LATIN AND GREEK POET Quoniam haec ratio plerumque videtur Tristlor esse, quibus non est tract.it a, retroque Volgus abhorret abhac: volui tibl suaviloquentl Carmine Pierio rationem exponere nostram, Et quasi musteo dulci contingere melle. Si tihi forte aniraum tali ratione tenerem. Lucretius. VERSES OCCASIONED BY MR. ADDISON'S TREATISE ON MEDALS. See the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears: 'With nodding arches, hroken temples spread! The very tombs now vanished like their dead! Some felt the silent stroke of mouldering age; Some, hostile fury; some, religious rage; Barbarian blindness, Christian zeal, conspire; And Papal piety, and Gothic fire. Perhaps by its own ruins saved from flame, Some buried marble half preserves a name; That name the learn'd with fierce disputes pursue, And give to Titus old Vespasian's due. Ambition sighed. She found it vain to trust The faithless column and the crumbling bust; Huge moles whose shadow stretched from shore to shore, Their ruins perished, and their place no more! Convinced, she now contracts her vast design; And all her triumphs sink into a coin. A narrow orb each crowded conquest keeps; Beneath her palm here sad Judaea weeps; Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile and Rhine: A small Euphrates through the piece is rolled; And little eagles wave their wings in gold. The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties lie. With sharpened sight pale antiquaries pore, The inscription value, but the rust adore: This the blue varnish, that the gr...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154101089
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154101088
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 471 gr


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