Ædes Pembrochianæ: A New Account and Description of the ... Antiquities and Curiosities in Wilton-House. ... With a Complete Index; ...

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Printed at the Salisbury Press: and sold by W. Morris; and B. C. Collins, Salisbury, 1795 - 133 Seiten

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Seite 102 - The way to dufty death. Out, out, brief candle ! Life's but a walking fhadow ; a poor player, That ftruts and frets his hour upon the ftage, And then is heard no more : it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of found and fury, Signifying nothing Enter a MESSENGER.
Seite 30 - ... illo non validus subiit iuga tempore taurus non domito frenos ore momordit equus. non domus ulla fores habuit, non fixus in agris qui regeret certis finibus arva, lapis...
Seite 14 - INTHE GREAT HALL. STATUES, BUSTOS, SARCOPHAGUS'S (or Tombs) and BASSORELIEVOS. A PANTHEON, having the Symbols of three- Divinities, a Cornucopia with Fruit for Vertumnus; out of it, Grapes for Bacchus; and Ears of Corn for Ceres. The Figure is a comely Man^. in the Prime of his Age and Strength, without any Beard, and therefore is probably an Apollo, larger than the Life. The Statue...
Seite 77 - Philip V. to Naples, and in 1704 died there. The appellation of " Luca fa Presto" was accidentally applied to Giordano ; not on account of the fame he had acquired by his expeditious manner of painting, but from the mercenary eagerness of his father, who sold at a high price the designs of Luca, which he made after the compositions of the great masters, while he pursued his studies. The father of Luca scarce allowed him time to refresh himself, but still said to him while he was at his meals as well...
Seite 20 - C'eft-là, fans doute, le plus beau : et tel étoit apparemment le marbre de Paros, le plus rare et le plus eftimé de tous. Cette forte de marbre a de plus deux autres qualités qui manquent au plus beau marbre Carrarien. La premiere...
Seite 60 - At Houghton, a whole length in armour. At Hampton Court, the King in armour on a white horse, his equerry holding his helmet. At Kensington, George Villiers, second duke of Buckingham, and Lord Francis his brother. And at Wilton, the Pembroke Family, a most capital performance. Also at the Marquis of Rockinjrham's, the celebrated picture of the Lord Strafford and his secretary.
Seite 5 - In the court) before the grand front of this fuperb manfion,. is' a granite column, with a flame of Venus on the top of it -, both purchafed from the Arundel collection. ' Mr. Evelyn, Who bought them at Rome for Lord Arundel, was told by the Italian antiquaries, that this column fupported anciently the...
Seite 71 - Underneath this fable herfe, Lies the fubjeft of all verfe ; Sidney's fifter, Pembroke's mother ; Death ! ere thou haft flain another, Learn'd and fair, and good as fhe, Time mail throw a dart at thee.
Seite 87 - ... yet, in several of them, the product of that imagination has a beautiful effect ; and he usually enriched his pastoral scenes with a great number of figures and animals. His pictures are seldom finished, and those which appear most so, are not always his best. The most esteemed work of Bourdon is the Martyrdom of St. Peter, in the church of Notre Dame at Paris, which is considered as a curiosity. Sir Joshua Reynblds had his " Return of the Ark from captivity," which he bequeathed to sir George...
Seite 89 - Thus he is praying to the Virgin Mary with the infant in her arms, on the other table furrounded with chriftian virtues, in the ihipe of angels, with collars of broom-cods about their necks, and white harts on their bofoms; one holding up the banner of the crofs before them, and on the...

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