The British museum. The Townley gallery [by sir.H. Ellis].1836 |
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Página 262 - ... journey; and as he possessed the various talents of the soldier, the statesman, and the scholar, he gratified his curiosity in the discharge of his duty. Careless of the difference of seasons and of climates, he marched on foot, and bare-headed, over the snows of Caledonia, and the sultry plains of the Upper Egypt; nor was there a province of the empire which, in the course of his reign, was not honoured with the presence of the monarch.
Página 100 - Arsinous' daughter, graced with golden hairs: (Whom to his aged arms, a royal slave, Greece, as the prize of Nestor's wisdom gave:) A table first with azure feet she...
Página 262 - The life of the former was almost a perpetual journey ; and as he possessed the various talents of the soldier, the statesman, and the scholar, he gratified his curiosity in the discharge of his duty. Careless of the difference of seasons and of climates, he marched on foot, and bare-headed, over the...
Página 168 - Mr. Townley, for some years, called it Ariadne ; Mr. Combe considered it a Venus. When Canova visited England, in 1814, he spoke of this, in the hearing of the present writer, as the finest female statue he had seen in England. This exquisite piece of sculpture was found in the ruins of the maritime baths of the Emperor Claudius, at Ostia, by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, in the year 1776. A figure of Venus, very nearly resembling the present, but with the position of the arms reversed, occurs in a medallion,...
Página 156 - African sand, with which, when mixed with oil, the athletse rubbed their bodies before and after their exercises'. The sand is still preserved in the present vase. It is one foot eleven inches high, by thirteen inches and a half in diameter. Room VI., upon No. 30. Three tiles, in terracotta, brought from Athens : the fronts are ornamented with a border...
Página 58 - I cannot but with much reverence, mention the every way Right honourable Thomas Howard Lord high Marshall of England, as great for his noble Patronage of Arts and ancient learning, as for his birth and place.
Página 81 - I. No. 40. A terracotta statue of a Muse resting her left arm upon a pile of writing tablets, which are placed upon a square column. The head is gone. This figure, in its present state, is three feet five inches high; and probably represents Calliope, whose office was to note down the worthy actions of the living, as it was Clio's to celebrate those of departed heroes. " Carmina Calliope libris heroica mandat.
Página 100 - A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.
Página 61 - I brought with me from Messina the Bishop of Andre, one of the islands of the Arches, a man of good learning and great experience in these parts. Hee assured mee, That the search after old and good authors was utterly...
Página 38 - Rome in the years 1798-99, etc. they erected in the centre of the Coliseum a temporary theatre, where they acted various republican pieces for the amusement of the army, and for the improvement of such Romans as might be disposed to fraternize with them, and adopt their principles. Voltaire's Brutus...