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of the Chapel , between the Public Schools andClare Hall,; being about 120 feet long and ninetybread, built of hone to a great height, in which,however, there are but few commodious apartments.The new Court forms a quadrangle, by the Chapelon the north, the new building (which is very mag-nificent) on the weft, and a brick building on theeaft, in which are a fchool and fome other apart-ments, adjoining to which is a very large Lodge forthe Provoft; on the fouth, another pile of buildingsis defigned, which is to contain the Hall and Pro-voft’s Lodge, with other apartments. This qua-drangle 13 upwards of 300 feet long, and alrnoft asmany bread.

On the weft: fide, and near the battlements of theold building, are fixed fome grotesque heads, eachhaving a leaden pipe in its mouth. A metaphor ofthe poet Menalius, has given occafion to a mentionof thefe in Fitzofborne’s elegant Letters. Speakingof unpardonable defeats, both of tafte and judgment,in fome writers, in the application of their meta-phors, he fays;

“ The poet Manilius feems to have raifed an“ image of the fame injudicious kind, in that com-“ pliment which he pays to Homer in the following“ verfes:

“ . cujufque ex ore profufos

“ Omnis Pofteritas latices in carmina duxit.

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