The Quarterly Review, Volume 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1815 - English literature |
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... Theseus , who had overcome the Centaurs , one of national interest with the Athenians , and it seems to have been a very fa- vourite subject in all sculptures of this period . It was depicted , as Pliny tells us , on the sandals of ...
... Theseus , who had overcome the Centaurs , one of national interest with the Athenians , and it seems to have been a very fa- vourite subject in all sculptures of this period . It was depicted , as Pliny tells us , on the sandals of ...
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... Theseus in the first order of merit but when the Theseus is compared with the Apollo Belvedere , Mr. Flaxman would prefer the latter , be- cause the Theseus is a mere representation of nature , fine nature indeed , but mere nature ...
... Theseus in the first order of merit but when the Theseus is compared with the Apollo Belvedere , Mr. Flaxman would prefer the latter , be- cause the Theseus is a mere representation of nature , fine nature indeed , but mere nature ...
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... Theseus and the Ilissus want , and it is on this that is founded the distinction made with equal truth and exactness by Sir Thomas Lawrence , when , in answer to the question , whether he did not consider the Theseus on the whole as the ...
... Theseus and the Ilissus want , and it is on this that is founded the distinction made with equal truth and exactness by Sir Thomas Lawrence , when , in answer to the question , whether he did not consider the Theseus on the whole as the ...
Contents
A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
The Character of Moses established for Veracity as a Historian | 96 |
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