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 1Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall Longman, Hurst, 1807 |
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... taste and circumstances of some of our modern buildings . But , before I direct any of them to be abated , or ( in the vulgar tongue ) to be pulled down , I shall defer the execution of my sentence for a few days , in order to give them ...
... taste and circumstances of some of our modern buildings . But , before I direct any of them to be abated , or ( in the vulgar tongue ) to be pulled down , I shall defer the execution of my sentence for a few days , in order to give them ...
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... taste , give beauty and currency to our manufac- tures , and increase and perpetuate our national resources . But the influx of worthless pictures , -the noxious inunda- tion of damaged or wretched originals and fabricated copies ...
... taste , give beauty and currency to our manufac- tures , and increase and perpetuate our national resources . But the influx of worthless pictures , -the noxious inunda- tion of damaged or wretched originals and fabricated copies ...
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... in the truth and spirit of the historical style , would be to offend legitimate taste , by adopting a costume at once inelegant and incapable of expressing G • dignified action : and to borrow the dress and fashions THE DIRECTOR . " 41.
... in the truth and spirit of the historical style , would be to offend legitimate taste , by adopting a costume at once inelegant and incapable of expressing G • dignified action : and to borrow the dress and fashions THE DIRECTOR . " 41.
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... taste ; and this undoubtedly would be the case if all rich men were men of taste but a certain general demand for pictures and portraits , at what may be called a mercantile rate , rather promotes mediocrity than excellence ; and where ...
... taste ; and this undoubtedly would be the case if all rich men were men of taste but a certain general demand for pictures and portraits , at what may be called a mercantile rate , rather promotes mediocrity than excellence ; and where ...
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... taste for philoso- phical research . He recommended it particularly to the female part of his au- dience , as fitted to their habits and pur- suits , capable of affording much rational amusement , and as an elegant and re- fined study ...
... taste for philoso- phical research . He recommended it particularly to the female part of his au- dience , as fitted to their habits and pur- suits , capable of affording much rational amusement , and as an elegant and re- fined study ...
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