The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829. Various
mahogany tables, which cost £200.; four exquisitely carved busts of Shakspeare, Milton, Spenser, and Dryden, by Scheimaker, and bequeathed to George, Lord Lyttleton, by Pope; the portrait of Pope and his dog, Bounce; a fine Madonna, by Rubens; several pictures by Vandyke, Sir Peter Lely, Le Brun, &c. &c. the Gobelin tapestry of the drawing room; the ceiling painted by Cipriani; and the family pictures, among which is Judge Lyttleton, copied from the painted glass in the Middle Temple Hall.
3
Thomson's affectionate letter to his sister, (quoted by Johnson, who received it from Boswell,) is dated "Hagley, in Worcestershire, October the 4th, 1747."
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Anteuil, near Paris.
5
Horace speaks thus to his steward in the country. Epistle xiv. book 1.
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Lewis XIV.
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See Ode sur la prise de Namur.
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This metaphor has been considered too bold, and perhaps justly, but