The Director [ed. by T.F. Dibdin]., Volumes 1-2Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1807 |
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... antient art , we are under the highest obligation . While they have embellished their own princely mansions , they have honoured , adorned , and enriched their country . We are still more indebted to a nobleman ( I need hardly name the ...
... antient art , we are under the highest obligation . While they have embellished their own princely mansions , they have honoured , adorned , and enriched their country . We are still more indebted to a nobleman ( I need hardly name the ...
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... before it dares to put a fair and li- beral value on his productions . That our painters , indeed , will never equal the performances of the antient schools , has been often 4 16 THE DIRECTOR . magical powers of execution seduce the ...
... before it dares to put a fair and li- beral value on his productions . That our painters , indeed , will never equal the performances of the antient schools , has been often 4 16 THE DIRECTOR . magical powers of execution seduce the ...
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... antient poets , dramatists , metaphysicians , and philoso- phers . They , however , who are willing to suppose , that the works of the great Italian masters were the casual product of spontaneous and unexcited genius , do grossly ...
... antient poets , dramatists , metaphysicians , and philoso- phers . They , however , who are willing to suppose , that the works of the great Italian masters were the casual product of spontaneous and unexcited genius , do grossly ...
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... antient and truly valuable mar- bles , but also for an additional building to be exclusively appropriated to them . THESE statues , busts , & c . are to be grouped , in separate compartments , ac- cording to their classification of Egyp ...
... antient and truly valuable mar- bles , but also for an additional building to be exclusively appropriated to them . THESE statues , busts , & c . are to be grouped , in separate compartments , ac- cording to their classification of Egyp ...
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... the reader . It is a letter On the Causes that affected the Progress of Antient Art . Sir , task As in the useful but arduous you have undertaken , you propose F to pay particular attention to the pre- sent state of THE DIRECTOR. ...
... the reader . It is a letter On the Causes that affected the Progress of Antient Art . Sir , task As in the useful but arduous you have undertaken , you propose F to pay particular attention to the pre- sent state of THE DIRECTOR. ...
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Page 21 - HALLELUJAH, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Page 231 - 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.
Page 94 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 83 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Page 92 - How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung! Still break the benches, Henley! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain.
Page 235 - With half-shut eyes, and pucker'd cheeks, and teeth Presented bare against the storm, plods on. One hand secures his hat, save when with both He brandishes his pliant length of whip, Resounding oft, and never heard in vain.
Page 209 - The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts thy retreat is made, The Muse attends thee to thy silent shade ; 'Tis hers the brave man's latest steps to trace, Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace. When Interest calls off all her sneaking train, And all th...
Page 231 - 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.
Page 42 - All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure, or even in the folds of the drapery, must be sparingly employed. In short, whatever partakes of fancy or caprice, or goes under the denomination of Picturesque...
Page 220 - 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.