Roman Literature in Relation to Roman ArtMacmillan and Company, 1888 - 315 sider |
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Side 9
... later time gradually raised this old grovelling Roman materialism ; but sculpture among the Romans never soared high , and painting took the place of sculpture in spiritualising art . Thus there has been no great Christian sculptor to ...
... later time gradually raised this old grovelling Roman materialism ; but sculpture among the Romans never soared high , and painting took the place of sculpture in spiritualising art . Thus there has been no great Christian sculptor to ...
Side 28
... later poets , when compared with those of the great Greek bards , have generally a par- ticular local reference rather than a general . When Virgil compares his defeated heroes to fallen trees , he names 28 ROMAN LITERATURE AND ART .
... later poets , when compared with those of the great Greek bards , have generally a par- ticular local reference rather than a general . When Virgil compares his defeated heroes to fallen trees , he names 28 ROMAN LITERATURE AND ART .
Side 40
... later times by the introduction of head - dresses , belts , and cuirasses , ornamented historically or biographically . The purpose of the Greek artist in shaping a bust or statue was to make it impressive , while the Roman's purpose ...
... later times by the introduction of head - dresses , belts , and cuirasses , ornamented historically or biographically . The purpose of the Greek artist in shaping a bust or statue was to make it impressive , while the Roman's purpose ...
Side 73
... later Greek sculpture , such as the Toro Farnese and the Laocoon . Lucilius besides his patriotic admiration of the statesmen and generals of his own time connects the early history of Rome in the first book of his Satires with the ...
... later Greek sculpture , such as the Toro Farnese and the Laocoon . Lucilius besides his patriotic admiration of the statesmen and generals of his own time connects the early history of Rome in the first book of his Satires with the ...
Side 75
... later Epic was probably prosaic and lifeless . The series of actions must have had a dull similarity and produced a confused and tedious effect upon the readers . So we have a cata- logue - like enumeration of the warlike races of ...
... later Epic was probably prosaic and lifeless . The series of actions must have had a dull similarity and produced a confused and tedious effect upon the readers . So we have a cata- logue - like enumeration of the warlike races of ...
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Æneas Æneid amphitheatres ancient appearance Aqua aqueducts arcades architects atque atrium Augustus Basilica beauty bricks buildings built busts Cæsar capitals Capitoline Catullus chap character Cicero Circus Cloaca Cloaca Maxima Coliseum colonnades colossal columns construction Corinthian decorative Diocletian Domitian domus Doric emperors Eneid Ennius entablature ESSAY expression exterior Farnese Hercules feet Forum Greek Hadrian Hercules heroes Hist Homer Horace houses imitation imperial influence insula Ionic Ionic order Juvenal Latin lines Lucan Lysippus marble Nævius natural Nero Nibby nunc opus ornamental Ovid passages placed Pliny poem poetry Pompeii Porta portico portrait Preller probably quae quam quod Roma Roman architecture Roman art Roman literature Roman poets Rome roof says Scipio sculpture seen shew shewn side Statius statues stone style temple theatres therma tibi tomb Trajan triumphal arches tufa Tuscan vaulted viii Virgil Vitruvius walls δὲ ἐν καὶ τε τὸ τῶν
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Side 177 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Side 176 - From her unhasty beast she did alight ; And on the grass her dainty limbs did lay In secret shadow, far from all men's sight From her fair head her fillet she undight, And laid her stole aside ; her...
Side 7 - Sed ego sic statuo, nihil esse in ullo genere tarn pulchrum, quo non pulchrius id sit unde illud ut ex ore aliquo quasi imago exprimatur; quod neque oculis neque auribus neque ullo sensu percipi potest, cogitatione tantum et mente complectimur.
Side 81 - Euandri profugae concubuere boves. fictilibus crevere deis haec aurea templa, nec fuit opprobrio facta sine arte casa ; Tarpeiusque pater nuda de rupe tonabat, et Tiberis nostris advena bubus erat. qua gradibus domus ista Remi se sustulit, olim unus erat fratrum maxima regna focus.
Side 176 - And layd her stole aside : her angels face, As the great eye of Heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place ; Did never mortal! eye behold such heavenly grace.
Side 91 - En Priamus ! Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi ; sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt. Solve metus ; feret haec aliquam tibi fama salutem.
Side 23 - Praecipue cum se numeris commendat et arte : Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.
Side 146 - Upon the whole, it seems to me, that the object and intention of all the Arts is to supply the natural imperfection of things, and often to gratify the mind by realising and embodying what never existed but in the imagination.
Side 27 - Hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, 'Augustus Caesar, Divi genus, aurea condet 'Saecula qui rursus Latio, regnata per arva