A Popular Handbook to the Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British MuseumMacmillan, 1903 - 794 Seiten |
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... Grace's yacht under Sir Charles Newton's super- intendence . The inscription is a law regulating the perquisites of the priest of Zeus the Almighty . Priesthoods were valuable offices , and were often put up to sale , just as livings ...
... Grace's yacht under Sir Charles Newton's super- intendence . The inscription is a law regulating the perquisites of the priest of Zeus the Almighty . Priesthoods were valuable offices , and were often put up to sale , just as livings ...
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... grace or winningness of expression . As a boy he inherited something of the beauty of the Julian family , and Seneca , his tutor , described him as a young Apollo . But his brow was low , his neck thick and sensual , and a scowl seems ...
... grace or winningness of expression . As a boy he inherited something of the beauty of the Julian family , and Seneca , his tutor , described him as a young Apollo . But his brow was low , his neck thick and sensual , and a scowl seems ...
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... grace . Farther on , in this room ( see p . 32 ) , is a bust of the emperor in his gracious and beautiful youth . The present statue shows the emperor as one of the Fratres Arvales , a college of priests instituted by Romulus , whose ...
... grace . Farther on , in this room ( see p . 32 ) , is a bust of the emperor in his gracious and beautiful youth . The present statue shows the emperor as one of the Fratres Arvales , a college of priests instituted by Romulus , whose ...
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... grace , the contagious pleasantness , of the Discobolus , the Diadumenus , and a few other precious survivals from the athletic age which imme- diately preceded the manhood of Phidias , between the Persian and the Peloponnesian wars ...
... grace , the contagious pleasantness , of the Discobolus , the Diadumenus , and a few other precious survivals from the athletic age which imme- diately preceded the manhood of Phidias , between the Persian and the Peloponnesian wars ...
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... grace - giving Palæstra , and the face wears the simple frank expression to which we are accustomed in the cella frieze of the Parthenon . It is probably an excellent copy of some celebrated original from the best period of Attic art ...
... grace - giving Palæstra , and the face wears the simple frank expression to which we are accustomed in the cella frieze of the Parthenon . It is probably an excellent copy of some celebrated original from the best period of Attic art ...
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Seite 124 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus. but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Seite 608 - The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond : it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars ; whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
Seite 371 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm...
Seite 197 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
Seite 191 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Seite 6 - But be his My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole ; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
Seite 6 - THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit ? ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy...
Seite 143 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Seite 99 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Seite 143 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.