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Archimedes and Franklin: A Lecture Introductory to a Course on the Application of Science to Art, Delivered Before the Massachusetts Charitable ... November 29, 1853 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

 
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Or they may have imagined, perhaps, that he would be impatient to visit at once the sacred fountain Of Arethusa, and the seat of those Sicilian Muses whom Virgil so soon after invoked in commencing that most inspired of all uninspired compositions, which Pope has so nobly paraphrased in his glowing and glorious Eclogue -the Messiah.

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