Essays in History and ArtW. Blackwood and sons, 1862 - 526 páginas |
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... Greek architecture , which is of all others most sym- metrical , with being " dead " and " atheistic " in its spirit ; while Gothic architecture , which is eminently irregular and expressive in its style , he quite as absurdly discovers ...
... Greek architecture , which is of all others most sym- metrical , with being " dead " and " atheistic " in its spirit ; while Gothic architecture , which is eminently irregular and expressive in its style , he quite as absurdly discovers ...
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... Greek artists . Having made a somewhat extensive survey of the figured works of the Greek artists which have come down to us , " he says , " I have to state that every great work of ancient sculpture ( in so far as it can be said to ...
... Greek artists . Having made a somewhat extensive survey of the figured works of the Greek artists which have come down to us , " he says , " I have to state that every great work of ancient sculpture ( in so far as it can be said to ...
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... Greeks , where purest symmetry was aimed at , Mr Hay may find for himself a succession of triumphs . If we take that masterpiece of Grecian architecture , the PARTHENON of Athens , we find that is a most perfect embodiment and illus ...
... Greeks , where purest symmetry was aimed at , Mr Hay may find for himself a succession of triumphs . If we take that masterpiece of Grecian architecture , the PARTHENON of Athens , we find that is a most perfect embodiment and illus ...
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... Greeks attained in æsthetic science , under difficultics infinitely greater than those which beset such inquiries in modern times , is a fact suggestive of important reflections . Not to speak of the twenty centuries by which the world ...
... Greeks attained in æsthetic science , under difficultics infinitely greater than those which beset such inquiries in modern times , is a fact suggestive of important reflections . Not to speak of the twenty centuries by which the world ...
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... Greeks " died in 497 B.C. , and the very next generation witnessed the golden age of Pericles , with Ictinus at work upon the Parthenon , Phidias sculpturing the matchless statues and bas - reliefs , and Zeuxis and Parrhasius contending ...
... Greeks " died in 497 B.C. , and the very next generation witnessed the golden age of Pericles , with Ictinus at work upon the Parthenon , Phidias sculpturing the matchless statues and bas - reliefs , and Zeuxis and Parrhasius contending ...
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Página 195 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned Natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British Territories in India...
Página 362 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.