Bernard de FONTENELLE, one of the 40. of the Académie Françoise, Perpetual Secretary of the Academy, of Sciences. in Paris at Daumont rue St. Martin. Surpasses this Portrait, Muse, paints Fontenelle:, His Writings always have a new grace., As a new Lucien raising the dead, He discovers Hearts the most secret resorts;, But this happy Genius, who animates and inflames him, Unites with a rare accord to the gifts of a beautiful Soul

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