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... generous paffion , under just command , Enlighten'd fondness for our native land ! Thy potent fire the Grecian arts refin'd , And made them idols of the cultur'd mind : 170 180 From thee the hero , as the artist , caught I 2.
... generous paffion , under just command , Enlighten'd fondness for our native land ! Thy potent fire the Grecian arts refin'd , And made them idols of the cultur'd mind : 170 180 From thee the hero , as the artist , caught I 2.
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... at all periods , through her wide domain , Force to the heart , and fancy to the brain — The fruit may fail , as time and chance decree , But every age and foil produce the tree— 190 200 That pride , the generous root of Grecian praise , ...
... at all periods , through her wide domain , Force to the heart , and fancy to the brain — The fruit may fail , as time and chance decree , But every age and foil produce the tree— 190 200 That pride , the generous root of Grecian praise , ...
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... Grecian hand for Greece achiev'd , When hands gave life to all the foul conceiv'd ? Feelings like these the fervent Milton found , Roving , in ftudious youth , o'er Tuscan ground ; 220 Such , of refin'd ambition juftly proud , His candid ...
... Grecian hand for Greece achiev'd , When hands gave life to all the foul conceiv'd ? Feelings like these the fervent Milton found , Roving , in ftudious youth , o'er Tuscan ground ; 220 Such , of refin'd ambition juftly proud , His candid ...
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... Grecian Sculpture's perfect fons to vie . When foreign pride would British minds enchain , Perish the doubt , prepofterously vain , That mental tyrants arrogantly start To limit England in the sphere of art * ! Has she not borne , to ...
... Grecian Sculpture's perfect fons to vie . When foreign pride would British minds enchain , Perish the doubt , prepofterously vain , That mental tyrants arrogantly start To limit England in the sphere of art * ! Has she not borne , to ...
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... Grecian art , through all its ftudious youth , Reach'd not the latent grace of lovely Truth . Her chiefs , her gods , as in a mental storm , Aw'd with a proud aufterity of form ; Yet Sculpture's fons , with Nature in their view ...
... Grecian art , through all its ftudious youth , Reach'd not the latent grace of lovely Truth . Her chiefs , her gods , as in a mental storm , Aw'd with a proud aufterity of form ; Yet Sculpture's fons , with Nature in their view ...
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Abbé accompliſhed Ægypt againſt ancient antiquity artiſt Athenian Athens baſe beſt boaſt braſs breaſt Caylus celebrated charms cloſe coloffal Corinth Dædalus dear defcription delight deſcribed diſplay epigram EPISTLE étoit Etruria faid fait fame fays feems firſt fome fond foul ftatue ftill ftone fublime fuch fuppofed genius glory grace Grecian Greece Greek Grotii Verfio himſelf Hipponax hiſtory honour illuftrious intereſting juft juftly juſt Lyfippus Memnon mind moft moſt NOTE o'er obferved paffage paffion Paufanias Phidias pleaſure Pliny Plutarch praiſe Praxiteles preſent preſerved pride qu'il quæ Quintilian quod raiſe repreſented reſpect Roman Rome ſays ſcene Scopas ſculptor Sculpture Sculpture's ſeems Semiramis ſhe ſkill ſpeak ſpirit ſtatue ſtill ſtone Strabo ſubject ſuch talents taſte temple thee theſe thine thoſe thou toil uſe verſe whofe whoſe Winkelman αγαλμα γαρ δε εις εκ εν επι και μεν τε τῳ υπο
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Page 176 - ... 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.
Page 176 - 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...
Page 209 - 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.
Page 209 - 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.
Page 183 - 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.
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Page 178 - ... 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...
Page 209 - 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...
Page 210 - 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.
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