British Museum: The Townley Gallery, Volumen1

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Página 99 - And trembling Greece for her physician fear'd. To Nestor then Idomeneus begun: 'Glory of Greece, old Neleus' valiant son! Ascend thy chariot, haste with speed away, And great Machaon to the ships convey. A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.
Página 260 - ... 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 260 - 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 100 - A massy weight, yet heaved with ease by him, When the brisk nectar overlook'd the brim. Temper'd in this, the nymph of form divine Pours a large portion of the Pramnian wine ; With goat's-milk cheese a flavorous taste bestows, And last with flour the smiling surface strows. This for the wounded prince the dame prepares ; The cordial beverage reverend Nestor shares: Salubrious draughts the warrior's thirst allay, And pleasing conference beguiles the day.
Página 100 - On each bright handle, bending o'er the brink, In sculptured gold, two turtles seem to drink : A massy weight, yet heaved with ease by him, When the brisk nectar overlooked the brim.
Página 100 - The chiefs descending from their car he found: The panting steeds Eurymedon unbound. The warriors standing on the breezy shore, To dry their sweat, and wash away the gore, Here...
Página 118 - Helen was a favourite subject with the ancients. Winckelmann, " Monument! Antichi Inediti," tav. 117, p. 159, has engraved either this, or a repetition of this bas-relief. Room I. No. 35 A Roman bas-relief, with sculptures, in the Egyptian style. Mr. Combe very properly assigns the execution of it to the time of the Emperor Hadrian, under whose auspices the veneration for Egyptian divinities prevailed very generally at Rome. The example set by this emperor in the decoration of his villa, and especially...
Página 38 - In an antichamber of the Palazzo Spada," says Eustace, " stands the celebrated statue of Pompey, at the foot of which Cffisar is supposed to have fallen. The his'ory of this statue deserves to be inserted. It was first placed, during Pompey's life, in the senate-house which he had erected ; and when that edifice was shut up, it was raised, by order of Augustus, on a double arch or gateway of marble, opposite the grand entrance of Pompey's theatre. It was thrown down, or fell, during the convulsion...
Página 143 - No. 65. and their ankles, and the ends of the chains are held by two guards, one of whom is walking on the right, and the other on the left of the car. Fom the character of the countenances, and the particular style of the hair and dress of these captives, it is evident that they are Dacians.

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