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... perfect and satisfactory examples of the artistic excellence of the Greek and Roman ages . And in no other department was this prince more successful in raising up a school of skilful artists than in this particular one , for the early ...
... perfect and satisfactory examples of the artistic excellence of the Greek and Roman ages . And in no other department was this prince more successful in raising up a school of skilful artists than in this particular one , for the early ...
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... perfect the finish of their workmanship . These wonderful artists contrived to enclose within the narrowness of a little agate - stone all the complicated details of an event in history , or of a fable in mythology , and to make them ...
... perfect the finish of their workmanship . These wonderful artists contrived to enclose within the narrowness of a little agate - stone all the complicated details of an event in history , or of a fable in mythology , and to make them ...
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... perfect indestructibility of its impress , which no time , no wear can efface , and nothing destroy , except the utter comminution of the stone itself . Medals , on the contrary , from the high relief of their surface , and the ...
... perfect indestructibility of its impress , which no time , no wear can efface , and nothing destroy , except the utter comminution of the stone itself . Medals , on the contrary , from the high relief of their surface , and the ...
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... perfect taste , treasures only to be truly appreciated by the educated and practised eye ; and how rapidly the mania is ebbing for the acquisition of the Gothic monstrosities so much sought after a few years ago . Now , when collections ...
... perfect taste , treasures only to be truly appreciated by the educated and practised eye ; and how rapidly the mania is ebbing for the acquisition of the Gothic monstrosities so much sought after a few years ago . Now , when collections ...
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... highly valued in a Christian family . ' I lost no time in The Princess is depicted by Goethe as the very pattern of the perfect Christian lady . discovering the most charming subjects of the compositions which sprung xxvi INTRODUCTION .
... highly valued in a Christian family . ' I lost no time in The Princess is depicted by Goethe as the very pattern of the perfect Christian lady . discovering the most charming subjects of the compositions which sprung xxvi INTRODUCTION .
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