The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on Subjects of Literature, the Fine Arts and Manners. II. Bibliographana. Account of Rare and Curious Books and of the Book Sales in this Country, from the Close of the Seventeenth Century. III. Royal Institution. Analyses of the Lectures Delivered Weekly. IV. British Gallery. Description of the Principal Pictures Exhibited ... V. 1-2: Jan. 24-July 4, 1807, 2. köideThomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall Longman, Hurst, 1807 |
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... character of the soul . SIR , To the Director . THOSE persons certainly entertain a very mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts , who consider them merely as subservient to amusement , or at most to that cultivation of mind which ...
... character of the soul . SIR , To the Director . THOSE persons certainly entertain a very mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts , who consider them merely as subservient to amusement , or at most to that cultivation of mind which ...
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... character ; and a profligate fiddler and a fiddling gentleman are very often fit company only for each other . But it is far otherwise with the inventors , or as they may rightly be styled the Po- ETS of this divine art ; who frequently ...
... character ; and a profligate fiddler and a fiddling gentleman are very often fit company only for each other . But it is far otherwise with the inventors , or as they may rightly be styled the Po- ETS of this divine art ; who frequently ...
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... character are the subse- quent recitative accompanied , and song ; which are among those efforts of genius , wherein this great master has contrived to paint darkness by its mental effects , the production of uncertainty and hesi ...
... character are the subse- quent recitative accompanied , and song ; which are among those efforts of genius , wherein this great master has contrived to paint darkness by its mental effects , the production of uncertainty and hesi ...
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... characters of its own , and particularly avoids the chromatics , which rather overseason the intermediate passages of that justly admired compo- sition . We are then led through a judi- cious mixture of recitative , air , and ac ...
... characters of its own , and particularly avoids the chromatics , which rather overseason the intermediate passages of that justly admired compo- sition . We are then led through a judi- cious mixture of recitative , air , and ac ...
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... character , is again accumulated upon this ; the first part of which beautifully represents the wild wanderings of human nature , with- out the Redeemer ; the second expresses the solemn act of laying our iniquities upon him . The ...
... character , is again accumulated upon this ; the first part of which beautifully represents the wild wanderings of human nature , with- out the Redeemer ; the second expresses the solemn act of laying our iniquities upon him . The ...
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Page 83 - PAPPE with an hatchet, alias, a figge for my God Sonne, or Cracke me this nut, or a Countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning.
Page 205 - The last, the meanest of your sons inspire (That on weak wings, from far, pursues your flights; Glows while he reads, but trembles as he writes) To teach vain Wits a science little known, T" admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
Page 140 - A disclosing of the great bull, and certain calves that he hath gotten, and specially the monster bull that roared at my lord byshops gate.
Page 89 - Imbrown'd with native bronze, lo! HENLEY stands, Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung!
Page 249 - A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Page 90 - Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung!
Page 195 - Canvas and wood, and even stone, will decay. The work of a great artist loses all its spirit in the copy. Words are mutable and fleeting ; and the genius of poetry is often dissipated in translation. The compositions of music may remain, but the hand of execution may be wanting. Nature cannot decay ; the language of her interpreters will be the same in all times. It will be an universal tongue speaking to all countries, and all ages, the excellence of the work, and the wisdom of the Creator.
Page 348 - The fame that a man wins himself is best ; That he may call his own : honours put to him Make him no more a man than his clothes do, Which are as soon ta'en off; for in the warmth The heat comes from the body, not the weeds ; So man's true fame must strike from his own deeds.
Page 252 - ... my sin hath blurred ; enlighten my understanding with thy truth; rectify my judgment with thy word; direct my will with thy spirit; strengthen my memory to retain good things; order my affections, that I may love thee above all things ; increase my faith ; encourage my hope; quicken my charity; sweeten my thoughts with thy grace; season my words with thy spirit; sanctify my actions with thy wisdom; subdue the insolence of my rebellious flesh ; restrain the fury of my unbridled passions; reform...
Page 272 - Collection were so well known in almost all parts of Europe. ' Afterwards it is observed that 'The books in general are in very fine condition, many of them bound in morocco, and russia leather, with gilt leaves.