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in der Platte: TAILPIECE.; The Worlds End.; FINIS.; H. Nature Bankrupt.; all and every Atom thereof to Chaos whom I appoint my sole Executor. Witness Clotho. Lachesis. Atropos.; TIMES; Exeumt Omnes.; Design'd and Engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth.; THE BATHOS, or Manner of Sinking, in Sublime Paintings, inscribed to the Dealers in Dark Pictures.; †; Publishd according to Act of Parliamt. March 3d. 1764.; The Conic Form in wch. the Godess of Beauty was woreshipd by the Ancients at Paphos in ye. Island of Cyprus.; See the Medals struck when a Roman Emperor visited the Temple.; "Simulacrum Deæ non effigie humana: continuus orbis latiore initio teneum in ambitum, metæ modo, exsurgens [s]et ratio in obscuro."; Tacit: Hist: Lib: 2.; "Venus a paphiis colitur, cujus Simulacrum nulli rei magis assimile, quam albæ Pyramidi.; Maximus Tyrius. Ann. 157.; † See the manner of disgracing ye most Serious Subjects, in many celebrated Old Pictures; by introducing Low, absurd, obscence & often prophane Circumstances into them.; A Copy of the precise Line of Beauty, as it is represented on the 1st. explanatory *Plate of the Analysis of Beauty, Note, the Similarity of these two Conic Figures, did not occur to the Author, till two or three Years after his publication of the Analysis, in 1754."; * fig: 26.
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