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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... whole time to it , as an idle and expensive luxury , nature seems to take revenge on the abuse , by joining with it a proportionable degra- dation of character ; and a profligate fiddler and a fiddling gentleman are very often fit ...
... whole time to it , as an idle and expensive luxury , nature seems to take revenge on the abuse , by joining with it a proportionable degra- dation of character ; and a profligate fiddler and a fiddling gentleman are very often fit ...
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... turn acknowledged . But , Sir , to feel the whole excellence of Handel's Oratorio Music , it is not sufficient to have ears , and to have cultivated the habit of listening with them : there are 12 On the Moral Effects of Music .
... turn acknowledged . But , Sir , to feel the whole excellence of Handel's Oratorio Music , it is not sufficient to have ears , and to have cultivated the habit of listening with them : there are 12 On the Moral Effects of Music .
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... whole subject ; and is so true , that even the " Halle- ` lujah " chorus may almost be heard with indifference , when preceded by common fiddlings ; or the tricks either of vocal or instrumental extravagance . I am , Sir , Your obedient ...
... whole subject ; and is so true , that even the " Halle- ` lujah " chorus may almost be heard with indifference , when preceded by common fiddlings ; or the tricks either of vocal or instrumental extravagance . I am , Sir , Your obedient ...
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... warmth of his love of the art , he does not specify any of the pic- tures which he possessed . There is a whole epistle on thissubject . I. vii . ep . 29 . Speaking of the vestibule of his villa , he says 38 Eminent Antient Artists .
... warmth of his love of the art , he does not specify any of the pic- tures which he possessed . There is a whole epistle on thissubject . I. vii . ep . 29 . Speaking of the vestibule of his villa , he says 38 Eminent Antient Artists .
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... whole epistle is well worth the reader's attention . DEMOPHON . OR , as the name is sometimes written , Damophon , is repeatedly mentioned by Pausanias . He was a most distinguished sculptor . The principal of his perform- ances were ...
... whole epistle is well worth the reader's attention . DEMOPHON . OR , as the name is sometimes written , Damophon , is repeatedly mentioned by Pausanias . He was a most distinguished sculptor . The principal of his perform- ances were ...
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