The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on Subjects of Literature, the Fine Arts and Manners. II. Bibliographana. Account of Rare and Curious Books and of the Book Sales in this Country, from the Close of the Seventeenth Century. III. Royal Institution. Analyses of the Lectures Delivered Weekly. IV. British Gallery. Description of the Principal Pictures Exhibited ... V. 1-2: Jan. 24-July 4, 1807, Band 2Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall Longman, Hurst, 1807 |
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... Lysippus , aud Praxiteles . Many of his performances are specified in terms of exalted praise by Pliny . The principal of these were , an Æsculapius , a Bacchus , an Apollo , a Pasiphae , & c . ' Or the Apollo , the following anecdote ...
... Lysippus , aud Praxiteles . Many of his performances are specified in terms of exalted praise by Pliny . The principal of these were , an Æsculapius , a Bacchus , an Apollo , a Pasiphae , & c . ' Or the Apollo , the following anecdote ...
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... cubits high , was the performance of this statuary , who was the pupil of Lysippus . This wonder of the world occasioned Chares to be cele brated in verse and prose , by almost every eminent 36 Eminent Antient Artists .
... cubits high , was the performance of this statuary , who was the pupil of Lysippus . This wonder of the world occasioned Chares to be cele brated in verse and prose , by almost every eminent 36 Eminent Antient Artists .
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... LYSIPPUS in brass , POLYCLETUS , who made a statue of so just proportion , that it was called " The Rule " and many others , both painters and statuaries , but bleaux estimés . Le DOMINIQUAIN ayant peint la communion de Saint Jérôme ...
... LYSIPPUS in brass , POLYCLETUS , who made a statue of so just proportion , that it was called " The Rule " and many others , both painters and statuaries , but bleaux estimés . Le DOMINIQUAIN ayant peint la communion de Saint Jérôme ...
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... LYSIPPUS was asked what model he pre- ferred ; he replied , pointing to a multi- tude of persons assembled , that nature was the artist's best pattern . And in fact , the transcendent attainments of the an- tients may be ascribed to no ...
... LYSIPPUS was asked what model he pre- ferred ; he replied , pointing to a multi- tude of persons assembled , that nature was the artist's best pattern . And in fact , the transcendent attainments of the an- tients may be ascribed to no ...
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... . We have the authority of Moschopulus , and indeed of Suidas , for asserting that before he wrote Tragedies , Euripides was by profession a PAINTER . VOL . II . - Ll EUTHYCRATES Was the son of Lysippus , but , though THE DIRECTOR. ...
... . We have the authority of Moschopulus , and indeed of Suidas , for asserting that before he wrote Tragedies , Euripides was by profession a PAINTER . VOL . II . - Ll EUTHYCRATES Was the son of Lysippus , but , though THE DIRECTOR. ...
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Seite 83 - PAPPE with an hatchet, alias, a figge for my God Sonne, or Cracke me this nut, or a Countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning.
Seite 205 - The last, the meanest of your sons inspire (That on weak wings, from far, pursues your flights; Glows while he reads, but trembles as he writes) To teach vain Wits a science little known, T" admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
Seite 140 - A disclosing of the great bull, and certain calves that he hath gotten, and specially the monster bull that roared at my lord byshops gate.
Seite 89 - Imbrown'd with native bronze, lo! HENLEY stands, Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung!
Seite 249 - A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Seite 90 - Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung!
Seite 195 - Canvas and wood, and even stone, will decay. The work of a great artist loses all its spirit in the copy. Words are mutable and fleeting ; and the genius of poetry is often dissipated in translation. The compositions of music may remain, but the hand of execution may be wanting. Nature cannot decay ; the language of her interpreters will be the same in all times. It will be an universal tongue speaking to all countries, and all ages, the excellence of the work, and the wisdom of the Creator.
Seite 348 - The fame that a man wins himself is best ; That he may call his own : honours put to him Make him no more a man than his clothes do, Which are as soon ta'en off; for in the warmth The heat comes from the body, not the weeds ; So man's true fame must strike from his own deeds.
Seite 252 - ... my sin hath blurred ; enlighten my understanding with thy truth; rectify my judgment with thy word; direct my will with thy spirit; strengthen my memory to retain good things; order my affections, that I may love thee above all things ; increase my faith ; encourage my hope; quicken my charity; sweeten my thoughts with thy grace; season my words with thy spirit; sanctify my actions with thy wisdom; subdue the insolence of my rebellious flesh ; restrain the fury of my unbridled passions; reform...
Seite 272 - Collection were so well known in almost all parts of Europe. ' Afterwards it is observed that 'The books in general are in very fine condition, many of them bound in morocco, and russia leather, with gilt leaves.