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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... look at yonder glass cutter's , and at this jeweller's ; examine the perfection of workmanship in this steel ware : and , again , reflect how the wilds of Russia and of India have been explored for these hides of the bear and the ...
... look at yonder glass cutter's , and at this jeweller's ; examine the perfection of workmanship in this steel ware : and , again , reflect how the wilds of Russia and of India have been explored for these hides of the bear and the ...
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... look with surprise , and Eliza with a sort of admiration and respect they both observed , on leaving the first shop into which we entered , that they did not expect to meet with fine gentlewomen serving behind the counter . I must ...
... look with surprise , and Eliza with a sort of admiration and respect they both observed , on leaving the first shop into which we entered , that they did not expect to meet with fine gentlewomen serving behind the counter . I must ...
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... look to find a considerable number of sin- gular and scarce heads , and will not be disappointed in their search . ' S. P. ( An account of the books will appear in the next number . ) Royal Institution . For the subject of his fifteenth ...
... look to find a considerable number of sin- gular and scarce heads , and will not be disappointed in their search . ' S. P. ( An account of the books will appear in the next number . ) Royal Institution . For the subject of his fifteenth ...
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... look for the perfection of the art in Greece , and at a much later age , about 800 years afterwards , when Peri- cles flourished . THE intervening period is not however to be passed without notice . About 1000 years before Christ ...
... look for the perfection of the art in Greece , and at a much later age , about 800 years afterwards , when Peri- cles flourished . THE intervening period is not however to be passed without notice . About 1000 years before Christ ...
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... look at this production : but to the connoisseur , the squareness and decision of touch here evinced , will secure to it , notice and applause . 260. Cattle . J. Ward . THERE are parts of this picture com- posed in the manner of Cuyp ...
... look at this production : but to the connoisseur , the squareness and decision of touch here evinced , will secure to it , notice and applause . 260. Cattle . J. Ward . THERE are parts of this picture com- posed in the manner of Cuyp ...
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Seite 229 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Seite 285 - Of idly-busy men the restless fry Run bustling to and fro with foolish haste, In search of pleasures vain that from them fly, Or which obtain'd the caitiffs dare not taste: When nothing is enjoy'd, can there be greater waste?
Seite 228 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Seite 347 - I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.
Seite 218 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maidservant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates.
Seite 85 - 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 212 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Seite 91 - 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...
Seite 244 - If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.