A Popular Handbook to the Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British MuseumMacmillan, 1903 - 794 Seiten |
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... supposed to repre- sent the celebrated ancient physician , was found near Albano , in the ruins of the villa of Marcus Varro , who , according to Pliny , had 700 portraits of illustrious men in his library . ( For a discussion of the ...
... supposed to repre- sent the celebrated ancient physician , was found near Albano , in the ruins of the villa of Marcus Varro , who , according to Pliny , had 700 portraits of illustrious men in his library . ( For a discussion of the ...
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... supposed to represent the sun in its full power ; the bull as typifying the earth and moon , the former by its use in agriculture , the latter by its horns , which form a crescent ; the dagger showing the influence of the sun upon the ...
... supposed to represent the sun in its full power ; the bull as typifying the earth and moon , the former by its use in agriculture , the latter by its horns , which form a crescent ; the dagger showing the influence of the sun upon the ...
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... supposed self - sacrifice . What is certain is that the desire to represent the deified favourite of the emperor gave a great impulse to the art of sculpture . All the representations of Antinous show the same peculiar features by which ...
... supposed self - sacrifice . What is certain is that the desire to represent the deified favourite of the emperor gave a great impulse to the art of sculpture . All the representations of Antinous show the same peculiar features by which ...
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... supposed to be a copy of an original by Calamis ( about 500-460 B.C. ) , an Athenian sculptor whose school flourished alongside of that of Phidias , and was characterised by a somewhat greater degree of stiffness . " Who , " says Cicero ...
... supposed to be a copy of an original by Calamis ( about 500-460 B.C. ) , an Athenian sculptor whose school flourished alongside of that of Phidias , and was characterised by a somewhat greater degree of stiffness . " Who , " says Cicero ...
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... supposed site of a villa belonging to Marcus Varro , lieutenant of Pompey , the friend of Cicero , and the most learned of Roman antiquaries . CHAPTER IV THE SECOND GRECO - ROMAN ROOM There , III 47 THE FIRST GRÆCO - ROMAN ROOM.
... supposed site of a villa belonging to Marcus Varro , lieutenant of Pompey , the friend of Cicero , and the most learned of Roman antiquaries . CHAPTER IV THE SECOND GRECO - ROMAN ROOM There , III 47 THE FIRST GRÆCO - ROMAN ROOM.
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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.