An Essay on Sculpture: in a Series of Epistles to John Flaxman, Esq. R.A., with Notes ...A. Strahan, 1800 - 358 頁 |
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... glory bright , Impell'd his fancy to a nobler flight : So may the modern lord of Sculpture's sphere , Whose mighty hand to many an art was dear May lofty Angelo thy mind inflame , As happily to vie with Tuscan fame ! Then shall thy ...
... glory bright , Impell'd his fancy to a nobler flight : So may the modern lord of Sculpture's sphere , Whose mighty hand to many an art was dear May lofty Angelo thy mind inflame , As happily to vie with Tuscan fame ! Then shall thy ...
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... glory triumph'd o'er inferior gold . But fceptics say that , in the modern breast , ; The patriot passion is a fordid jest ; The knavish politician's pompous mask , That to the wife betrays his fecret task To cheat a nation with ...
... glory triumph'd o'er inferior gold . But fceptics say that , in the modern breast , ; The patriot passion is a fordid jest ; The knavish politician's pompous mask , That to the wife betrays his fecret task To cheat a nation with ...
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... glory climb'd , And strong devotion's fire his foul sublim'd ; Meek Newton thus his modeft wisdom taught , " All that I've done is due to patient thought + . " Hard is their fate , moft pitiably hard , Who feel the shatter'd mind from ...
... glory climb'd , And strong devotion's fire his foul sublim'd ; Meek Newton thus his modeft wisdom taught , " All that I've done is due to patient thought + . " Hard is their fate , moft pitiably hard , Who feel the shatter'd mind from ...
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... glory to relate , To trace , through chequer'd years , thy changeful fate ; And praise thee , forming with a potent hand Thy new dominion in my native land ? While zeal thus bids the breath of incense roll From that pure censer , a ...
... glory to relate , To trace , through chequer'd years , thy changeful fate ; And praise thee , forming with a potent hand Thy new dominion in my native land ? While zeal thus bids the breath of incense roll From that pure censer , a ...
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... glory hurl'd- The hallow'd Homer of the Chriftian world ? 170 Affociate Arts alternate luftre lend ; Each , in her hour , appears a fifter's friend . Say why in sculpture Greece has reign'd fupreme ? Nature with marble gave her rocks to ...
... glory hurl'd- The hallow'd Homer of the Chriftian world ? 170 Affociate Arts alternate luftre lend ; Each , in her hour , appears a fifter's friend . Say why in sculpture Greece has reign'd fupreme ? Nature with marble gave her rocks to ...
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第 176 頁 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
第 176 頁 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and...
第 209 頁 - With well-taught feet : now fhape, in oblique ways, Confus'dly regular, the moving maze : Now forth at once, too fwift for fight, they fpring, And undiftinguifh'd blend the flying ring: So whirls a wheel, in giddy circle toft, 695 And rapid as it runs, the fmgle fpokes are loft.
第 209 頁 - And, rapid as it runs, the single spokes are lost. The gazing multitudes admire around; Two active tumblers in the centre bound ; Now high, now low, their pliant limbs they bend, 699 And gen'ral songs the sprightly revel end.
第 183 頁 - For a father afflicted with untimely mourning, when he hath made an image of his child soon taken away, now honoured him as a god, which was then a dead man, and delivered to those that were under him ceremonies and sacrifices.
第 199 頁 - On voyoit dans la plupart des villes " leurs figures, faites par les plus grands maîtres.
第 178 頁 - ... find a man despising the false estimates of the vulgar, and daring to aspire in sentiment, language and conduct, to what the highest wisdom, through every age, has taught us as most excellent, to him I unite myself by a sort of necessary attachment; and if I am so influenced by nature or destiny, that by no exertion or labours of my own I may exalt myself to this summit of worth and honour, yet no powers of heaven or earth will hinder me from looking with reverence and affection upon those, who...
第 209 頁 - Of these the sides adorn'd with swords of gold, That glittering gay, from silver belts depend. Now all at once they rise, at once descend...
第 210 頁 - Of burnish'd gold, in silver trappings hung ; — They, with well-tutor'd step, now, nimbly ran The circle, swift, as when, before his wheel Seated, the potter twirls it with both hands For trial of its speed ; now, crossing quick They pass'd at once into each other's place.
第 iii 頁 - Essays on Sculpture : in a Series of Epistles to John Flaxman, Esq. RA, with Notes.