Hand-book of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred ArtsPutnam, 1852 - 647 páginas |
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... poem , the lines of which are so contrived , that the first letters of each , taken together , will make a proper name or other word . ACROSTOʻLIUM , in the naval archi- tecture of the ancients , the extreme part of the ornament used on ...
... poem , the lines of which are so contrived , that the first letters of each , taken together , will make a proper name or other word . ACROSTOʻLIUM , in the naval archi- tecture of the ancients , the extreme part of the ornament used on ...
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... poem , in which he celebrates the adven- tures of Æneas , one of the bravest among the Trojan heroes . The author intro- duces him as sailing from Troy , after its destruction , in search of the shores of Italy , on which it had been ...
... poem , in which he celebrates the adven- tures of Æneas , one of the bravest among the Trojan heroes . The author intro- duces him as sailing from Troy , after its destruction , in search of the shores of Italy , on which it had been ...
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... poem on the life of Alexander , written in this way , by some French poet . ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY , this celebrated library was founded by Ptole- my Soter , for the use of an academy that he instituted in Alexandria ; and , by continual ...
... poem on the life of Alexander , written in this way , by some French poet . ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY , this celebrated library was founded by Ptole- my Soter , for the use of an academy that he instituted in Alexandria ; and , by continual ...
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... poems , meaning literally the songs of herdsmen . We have considerable re- mains of this species of poetry in the poems of Theocritus , Bion , and Moschus , and the Eclogues of Virgil . The metre universally employed is the hexameter or ...
... poems , meaning literally the songs of herdsmen . We have considerable re- mains of this species of poetry in the poems of Theocritus , Bion , and Moschus , and the Eclogues of Virgil . The metre universally employed is the hexameter or ...
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... poem , answering to what in prose is called a book . In Italian , canto is a song ; and it signifies also the first treble , or highest vocal part . CAN'TO - FER'MO , in music , the sub- ject song . Every part that is the sub- ject of ...
... poem , answering to what in prose is called a book . In Italian , canto is a song ; and it signifies also the first treble , or highest vocal part . CAN'TO - FER'MO , in music , the sub- ject song . Every part that is the sub- ject of ...
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Página 196 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Página 143 - O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom and majesty and glory and honour. And for the majesty that he gave him all people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him; whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive, and whom he would he set up, and whom he would he put down.
Página 112 - And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Página 480 - Its great tendency and purpose is, to carry the mind beyond and above the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary life; to lift it into a purer element, and to breathe into it more profound and generous emotion.
Página 112 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established by law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? — King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Página 223 - If I doubt of all other things, that very doubt makes me perceive my own existence, and will not suffer me to doubt of that.
Página 480 - It delights in the beauty and sublimity of the outward creation and of the soul. It indeed portrays with terrible energy the excesses of the passions ; but they are passions which show a mighty nature, which are full of power, which command awe, and excite a deep though shuddering sympathy.
Página 196 - ... is not completely developed, though many moderns have closely investigated the subject, and described their processes. As the thing chiefly regarded in encaustic painting was the securing of permanence and durability, by the application of fire, the word encaustic...
Página 72 - Eliz. c. 18, is declared to be exactly the same, is with us at this day created by the mere delivery of the king's great seal into his custody, whereby he becomes, without writ or patent, an officer of the greatest weight and power of any now subsisting in the kingdom ; and superior in point of precedency to every temporal lord.
Página 72 - ... he became keeper of the king's conscience ; visitor, in right of the king, of all hospitals and colleges of the king's foundation ; and patron of all the king's livings under the value of twenty marks per annum in the king's books.