Choice Literature, Volume 2J. B. Alden, 1880 |
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Pagina 69
... antique art most curious in form and development , and which in justice ought to be known to the future visitors to the Museum as the Ercole Visconti . Prince Torlonia has gone on from year to year with steady persist- ence , spending ...
... antique art most curious in form and development , and which in justice ought to be known to the future visitors to the Museum as the Ercole Visconti . Prince Torlonia has gone on from year to year with steady persist- ence , spending ...
Pagina 77
... antique art which is very curious in development and meaning . Like Minerva and Apollo , Hercules has his attributes - the club and lion's skin . The god holds his son Telephus most tenderly on one HIDDEN TREASURES : TORLONIA MUSEUM . 77.
... antique art which is very curious in development and meaning . Like Minerva and Apollo , Hercules has his attributes - the club and lion's skin . The god holds his son Telephus most tenderly on one HIDDEN TREASURES : TORLONIA MUSEUM . 77.
Pagina 81
... . Besides , Tacitus describes Agrippina as a concentrated , austere , cold woman , the very type of an antique Roman matron ; while this Tor • lonia statue is a luxurious woman , chaste from HIDDEN TREASURES : TORLONIA MUSEUM . 81.
... . Besides , Tacitus describes Agrippina as a concentrated , austere , cold woman , the very type of an antique Roman matron ; while this Tor • lonia statue is a luxurious woman , chaste from HIDDEN TREASURES : TORLONIA MUSEUM . 81.
Pagina 104
THE " EGILS SAGA . " There were two heroic periods in the antique life of Iceland - the one eminent for its action , the other for its intellect . During the tenth cen- tury those magnificent deeds were performed for which the ...
THE " EGILS SAGA . " There were two heroic periods in the antique life of Iceland - the one eminent for its action , the other for its intellect . During the tenth cen- tury those magnificent deeds were performed for which the ...
Pagina 428
... antique has been an impure goddess Venus , seduc- ing and corrupting the Christian artist ; the antique has been for others a glorious Helen , an unattainable perfection , ever pursued by the medieval craftsman , but seized by him only ...
... antique has been an impure goddess Venus , seduc- ing and corrupting the Christian artist ; the antique has been for others a glorious Helen , an unattainable perfection , ever pursued by the medieval craftsman , but seized by him only ...
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Ahura Mazda ancient antique appears artist Austria Baptism beautiful called century character Christian Church classical Comédie Française death divine doubt earth Egil Emperor England English eyes fact father Faugère feel France French genius German Giottesque give Government Greek Guelf hand heart heavens human idea interest J. R. SEELEY Jesuits Joseph de Maistre Jules Ferry king Lady land less living look Lord Marsham mastersong matter means ment meteoric mind modern Molière nation nature never Norway observed Odin party Pascal passage passed perhaps philosophy political Port-Royal present Prince pyramid question religion Roman Russia seems Shah Jehan side society soul spirit story theatre things Thorolf thought tion Tories Torlonia true truth Varuna Whigs whole words writing Zeus
Populaire passages
Pagina 790 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Pagina 600 - Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Pagina 794 - I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill -sounding throat Awake the god of day...
Pagina 514 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Pagina 3 - I have long been of opinion, that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British empire lie in America; and though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that human wisdom ever yet erected.
Pagina 32 - The new Beer Bill has begun its operations. Everybody is drunk. Those who are not singing are sprawling. The sovereign people are in a beastly state.
Pagina 600 - There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute. Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
Pagina 244 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Pagina 651 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Pagina 600 - After the death of King Wan, was not the cause of truth lodged here in me? "If Heaven had wished to let this cause of truth perish, then I, a future mortal! should not have got such a relation to that cause. While Heaven does not let the cause of truth perish, what can the people of K'wang do to me?