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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... character of the soul . SIR , To the Director . THOSE persons certainly entertain a very mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts , who consider them merely as subservient to amusement , or at most to that cultivation of mind which ...
... character of the soul . SIR , To the Director . THOSE persons certainly entertain a very mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts , who consider them merely as subservient to amusement , or at most to that cultivation of mind which ...
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... character ; and a profligate fiddler and a fiddling gentleman are very often fit company only for each other . But it is far otherwise with the inventors , or as they may rightly be styled the Po- ETS of this divine art ; who frequently ...
... character ; and a profligate fiddler and a fiddling gentleman are very often fit company only for each other . But it is far otherwise with the inventors , or as they may rightly be styled the Po- ETS of this divine art ; who frequently ...
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... character are the subse- quent recitative accompanied , and song ; which are among those efforts of genius , wherein this great master has contrived to paint darkness by its mental effects , the production of uncertainty and hesi ...
... character are the subse- quent recitative accompanied , and song ; which are among those efforts of genius , wherein this great master has contrived to paint darkness by its mental effects , the production of uncertainty and hesi ...
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... characters of its own , and particularly avoids the chromatics , which rather overseason the intermediate passages of that justly admired compo- sition . We are then led through a judi- cious mixture of recitative , air , and ac ...
... characters of its own , and particularly avoids the chromatics , which rather overseason the intermediate passages of that justly admired compo- sition . We are then led through a judi- cious mixture of recitative , air , and ac ...
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... character , is again accumulated upon this ; the first part of which beautifully represents the wild wanderings of human nature , with- out the Redeemer ; the second expresses the solemn act of laying our iniquities upon him . The ...
... character , is again accumulated upon this ; the first part of which beautifully represents the wild wanderings of human nature , with- out the Redeemer ; the second expresses the solemn act of laying our iniquities upon him . The ...
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