An Old Man's Thoughts about Many ThingsBell and Daldy, 1862 - 261 strán (strany) |
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... - power his executor to look after this matter , to pay the artist well and to escape from the taste of a committee . The Romans when they set up a public you are statue did it in this fashion in Cicero's time . 76 OF STATUES .
... - power his executor to look after this matter , to pay the artist well and to escape from the taste of a committee . The Romans when they set up a public you are statue did it in this fashion in Cicero's time . 76 OF STATUES .
Strana 80
... taste tells in few words how Stesichorus was represented . It was the figure of an old man , bent with age , with a book in his hand , and the workmanship was supposed , this is Cicero's assumed modest way of giving his opinion- to be ...
... taste tells in few words how Stesichorus was represented . It was the figure of an old man , bent with age , with a book in his hand , and the workmanship was supposed , this is Cicero's assumed modest way of giving his opinion- to be ...
Strana 82
... taste to dress them sometimes in a Greek costume . L. Scipio , who conquered Antiochus the great , was placed in the Roman capitol in a Greek dress and Greek shoes . We sometimes wrap a statue up in something like a blanket , which the ...
... taste to dress them sometimes in a Greek costume . L. Scipio , who conquered Antiochus the great , was placed in the Roman capitol in a Greek dress and Greek shoes . We sometimes wrap a statue up in something like a blanket , which the ...
Strana 91
... taste . At least I do not . A naked woman in an almost impossible attitude on an impossible beast , standing still , is the oddest combination of absurdity that can be imagined . We allow art a wide range when it can produce something ...
... taste . At least I do not . A naked woman in an almost impossible attitude on an impossible beast , standing still , is the oddest combination of absurdity that can be imagined . We allow art a wide range when it can produce something ...
Strana 124
... taste , our noblest thoughts , came from the bright land of Hellas . Our civil institutions , our great oeconomic designs , our warlike art , and some things which we might mend , came from the men of Italy , who conquered the western ...
... taste , our noblest thoughts , came from the bright land of Hellas . Our civil institutions , our great oeconomic designs , our warlike art , and some things which we might mend , came from the men of Italy , who conquered the western ...
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