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... to Italy . 5 Alludes to several ministers , counsellors , and patriots banished in our time to Siberia , and to that more glorious fate of the Parliament of Paris , banished to Pontoise in the year 1720 .
... to Italy . 5 Alludes to several ministers , counsellors , and patriots banished in our time to Siberia , and to that more glorious fate of the Parliament of Paris , banished to Pontoise in the year 1720 .
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... air of Nicolini's , and imitated that popular Italian musician , though his lordship could not have heard the song for more than sixty years . Pope said to Spence , that none of his works bad been more laboured than this Epistle .
... air of Nicolini's , and imitated that popular Italian musician , though his lordship could not have heard the song for more than sixty years . Pope said to Spence , that none of his works bad been more laboured than this Epistle .
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19 And in painting ( from which even Italy is not free ) of naked figures in churches , & c . , which has obliged some Popes to put draperies on some of those of the best masters . 20 Verrio ( Antonio ) painted many ceilings , & c .
19 And in painting ( from which even Italy is not free ) of naked figures in churches , & c . , which has obliged some Popes to put draperies on some of those of the best masters . 20 Verrio ( Antonio ) painted many ceilings , & c .
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The same lively and picturesque writer describes the effect which the Burlington colonnade had upon him when first seen . “ Soon after my return from Italy , ” he says , “ I was invited to a ball at Burlington House .
The same lively and picturesque writer describes the effect which the Burlington colonnade had upon him when first seen . “ Soon after my return from Italy , ” he says , “ I was invited to a ball at Burlington House .
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Being himself a datbler in verse , he loved to have poets about him , and he evinced substantial kindness to Thomson , who was enabled by his bounty to travel in France and Italy . The anecdote of Thomson sauntering about Bubb's gardens ...
Being himself a datbler in verse , he loved to have poets about him , and he evinced substantial kindness to Thomson , who was enabled by his bounty to travel in France and Italy . The anecdote of Thomson sauntering about Bubb's gardens ...
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