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Title: Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk, the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
Year: 1767 (1760s)
Authors: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 Hughs, John, 1703-1771 Vertue, George, 1684-1756 Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Sermon on painting Whaley, Nathaniel, 1710-1745. Journey to Houghton Zincke, Christian Frederick, 1685-1767
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 Walpole family Houghton Hall (England) Painting Art and religion
Publisher: London : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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JOURNEY T O HO U G H T O N. A POEM. SWEETNymphs, that dwell onPindus verdant fide.And oer the Woods, without a Bluih, prefide,Celeftial Mufes, deign your Bard a Lay, As on the winding Banks of Tare I ftray. Yet ii8 A Journey to Houghton: Yet if the Nymphs from Pindus fcorn to bowNor deign to liften to a Voice fo low jTheir Pride I will repay, and in delpite,While fuch my Theme, of all the Mufes write. Recall we then, for ftill twill pleafe, to mindThe Morn we left dull Norwich Smoke behind,When, as the lofty Spire juft funk from View,To a fair verdant waterd Vale we drew jWhere midft fair Libertys all-joyous PlainsPopVy ftill feems to hug her galling Chains.T he Dragon in Hefperian Gardens oldThus flumbring lay, and tafted not the Gold jThus, midft th eternal Spring yudcea keeps.The lazy Poifon of Jfphaltus fleeps. Bend then, my Mufe, thy Flight to Weflon\ Plains,(No Verfe can flow where Papal Slavry reigns) Weflon ! A POEM. 119 TVeflon! whofe Groves not envy Pindus Shade, Nor bleft w

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