The English Connoisseur: Containing an Account of Whatever is Curious in Painting, Sculpture, &c. in the Palaces and Seats of the Nobility and Principal Gentry of England, Both in Town and Country. ...L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1766 |
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... enter a cottage , a smaller picture , by the fame mafter . There are other smaller pictures good in their kind , fuch as the Virgin and child , by Rotten- bammer , highly finished and coloured . The fame fubject , the fchool of Carracci ...
... enter a cottage , a smaller picture , by the fame mafter . There are other smaller pictures good in their kind , fuch as the Virgin and child , by Rotten- bammer , highly finished and coloured . The fame fubject , the fchool of Carracci ...
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... and a half from Oxford . From the town we enter the park , through a fpacious portal of the Corinthian order ; from whence a noble profpect is opened to she palace , the the bridge , the lake with its valley , and 14 BEL VE DERE . BLENHEIM.
... and a half from Oxford . From the town we enter the park , through a fpacious portal of the Corinthian order ; from whence a noble profpect is opened to she palace , the the bridge , the lake with its valley , and 14 BEL VE DERE . BLENHEIM.
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... enter the palace on the Eaft , through a portal built in the ftile of Martial Architecture , which leads us into a quadrangle chiefly confift- ing of arcades and offices . From hence we pafs into the grand area . In the center of the ...
... enter the palace on the Eaft , through a portal built in the ftile of Martial Architecture , which leads us into a quadrangle chiefly confift- ing of arcades and offices . From hence we pafs into the grand area . In the center of the ...
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... Victories and Atchievements of A- lexander . The particular Subjects are , 1 Alexander entering Darius's Tent . 2 His conversation with the Magi and Dio- genes . ' The The Pictures are , 1. St. Austin when young ; 16 BLENHEIM .
... Victories and Atchievements of A- lexander . The particular Subjects are , 1 Alexander entering Darius's Tent . 2 His conversation with the Magi and Dio- genes . ' The The Pictures are , 1. St. Austin when young ; 16 BLENHEIM .
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... entering this Superb Room , which is 180 feet in length , and proportionably broad and lofty . The Doric Pilafters of Marble , with the com- plete columns of the fame , which fupport a rich Entablature , the Window - Frames , the fur ...
... entering this Superb Room , which is 180 feet in length , and proportionably broad and lofty . The Doric Pilafters of Marble , with the com- plete columns of the fame , which fupport a rich Entablature , the Window - Frames , the fur ...
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Страница 67 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Страница 162 - The bloflbm buds, the fountain flows ; " Lo ! to crown thy healthful board, " All that milk and fruits afford.
Страница 175 - Tho' lovely foft thy murmurs are, " Thy waters lovely cool and fair. " Flow, gentle ftream, nor let the vain " Thy fmall unfully'd ftores difdain: " Nor let the penfive fage repine, " Whofe latent courfe refembles thine.
Страница 27 - Duke, are fully fpecified on the pedeftal of a ftately column, 130 feet in height, on the top of which is a ftatue of the Duke, fituated in the grand avenue. On one fide is the following Infcription, fuppofed to be written by the late Lord Bolinglroke.
Страница 157 - Other cascades may possibly have the advantage of a greater descent, and a larger torrent, but a more wild and romantic appearance of water, and at the same time strictly natural, is what I never saw in any place whatever.
Страница 170 - HENCE we proceed to the (N° 31) ruftic building before-mentioned, a flight and unexpenfive edifice, formed of rough unhewn ftone, commonly called here the Temple of Pan ; having a trophy of the Tibia and Syrinx, and this infcription over the entrance, Pan primus calamosceraconjungere plures Edocuit ; Pan curat oves, oviumque magiftros.
Страница 28 - Acquired an Influence Which no Rank, no Authority can give, Nor any Force, but that of...
Страница 178 - And while the fight unveils a part. " Let fancy paint the reft. » " Let coy referve with coft unite " To grace your wood cr field ; " No ray obtrufive pall the fight, " In aught you paint, or build.
Страница 178 - O Venus, Venus here retir'd, My fober vows I pay : Not her on Paphian plains admir'd The bold, the pert, the gay. Not her, whofe amorous leer prevail'd To bribe the Phrygian boy ; Not he.r who, clad in armour fail'd, To fave difaft'rous Troy. Frefh rifing from the foamy tide, She every bofom warms ; While half withdrawn fhe feems to hide, And half reveals, her charms.
Страница 167 - Owen scene, with a group of houses on the slope behind, and the horizon well fringed with the wood. Now winding a few paces round the margin of the water, we come to another small bench, which presents the former scene somewhat varied, with the addition of a whited village among trees upon a hill.