The English Connoisseur: Containing an Account of Whatever is Curious in Painting, Sculpture, &c. in the Palaces and Seats of the Nobility and Principal Gentry of England, Both in Town and Country. ...L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1766 |
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... houses into which , by the indulgence of their illuftrious owners , the curious are admitted , any catalogues of the paintings and other curiofities which adorn them can be obtained ; and without fuch catalogues it must be confeffcd ...
... houses into which , by the indulgence of their illuftrious owners , the curious are admitted , any catalogues of the paintings and other curiofities which adorn them can be obtained ; and without fuch catalogues it must be confeffcd ...
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... houses of our nobility and gentry . Mr. Walpole ( a ) fcruples not to affert that there are not a great many collections left ' in Italy more worth feeing than that at Houghton . In the prefervation of the pictures it certainly excells ...
... houses of our nobility and gentry . Mr. Walpole ( a ) fcruples not to affert that there are not a great many collections left ' in Italy more worth feeing than that at Houghton . In the prefervation of the pictures it certainly excells ...
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... HOUSE BLENHEIM Page I 12 14 CHATSWORTH 28 CHISWICK 30 DEVONSHIRE HOUSE 41 DITCHLEY 51 FOOT'S - CRAY PLACE HAGLEY - PARK HAMPTON COURT HOUGHTON - HALL 3d * * 81 57 62 74 . CHARLES JENNENS , Efq . 117 KENSINGTON PALACE 144 THE LEASOWES ...
... HOUSE BLENHEIM Page I 12 14 CHATSWORTH 28 CHISWICK 30 DEVONSHIRE HOUSE 41 DITCHLEY 51 FOOT'S - CRAY PLACE HAGLEY - PARK HAMPTON COURT HOUGHTON - HALL 3d * * 81 57 62 74 . CHARLES JENNENS , Efq . 117 KENSINGTON PALACE 144 THE LEASOWES ...
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... highest preservation , and of the fineft impreffions : they are contained in about 50 volumes , befides above 60 volumes in fculp- ture and architecture . BELVEDERE , BELVEDERE HOUSE , Belonging to Sir Samfon Gideon , is BARNARD . II.
... highest preservation , and of the fineft impreffions : they are contained in about 50 volumes , befides above 60 volumes in fculp- ture and architecture . BELVEDERE , BELVEDERE HOUSE , Belonging to Sir Samfon Gideon , is BARNARD . II.
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... HOUSE , Belonging to Sir Samfon Gideon , is situated on the brow of a hill near Erith in Kent . The collection of pictures in this houfe , though not numerous , is very valuable ; the pieces being originals by the greatest mailers , and ...
... HOUSE , Belonging to Sir Samfon Gideon , is situated on the brow of a hill near Erith in Kent . The collection of pictures in this houfe , though not numerous , is very valuable ; the pieces being originals by the greatest mailers , and ...
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Seite 67 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Seite 162 - The bloflbm buds, the fountain flows ; " Lo ! to crown thy healthful board, " All that milk and fruits afford.
Seite 175 - Tho' lovely foft thy murmurs are, " Thy waters lovely cool and fair. " Flow, gentle ftream, nor let the vain " Thy fmall unfully'd ftores difdain: " Nor let the penfive fage repine, " Whofe latent courfe refembles thine.
Seite 27 - Duke, are fully fpecified on the pedeftal of a ftately column, 130 feet in height, on the top of which is a ftatue of the Duke, fituated in the grand avenue. On one fide is the following Infcription, fuppofed to be written by the late Lord Bolinglroke.
Seite 157 - Other cascades may possibly have the advantage of a greater descent, and a larger torrent, but a more wild and romantic appearance of water, and at the same time strictly natural, is what I never saw in any place whatever.
Seite 170 - HENCE we proceed to the (N° 31) ruftic building before-mentioned, a flight and unexpenfive edifice, formed of rough unhewn ftone, commonly called here the Temple of Pan ; having a trophy of the Tibia and Syrinx, and this infcription over the entrance, Pan primus calamosceraconjungere plures Edocuit ; Pan curat oves, oviumque magiftros.
Seite 28 - Acquired an Influence Which no Rank, no Authority can give, Nor any Force, but that of...
Seite 178 - And while the fight unveils a part. " Let fancy paint the reft. » " Let coy referve with coft unite " To grace your wood cr field ; " No ray obtrufive pall the fight, " In aught you paint, or build.
Seite 178 - O Venus, Venus here retir'd, My fober vows I pay : Not her on Paphian plains admir'd The bold, the pert, the gay. Not her, whofe amorous leer prevail'd To bribe the Phrygian boy ; Not he.r who, clad in armour fail'd, To fave difaft'rous Troy. Frefh rifing from the foamy tide, She every bofom warms ; While half withdrawn fhe feems to hide, And half reveals, her charms.
Seite 167 - Owen scene, with a group of houses on the slope behind, and the horizon well fringed with the wood. Now winding a few paces round the margin of the water, we come to another small bench, which presents the former scene somewhat varied, with the addition of a whited village among trees upon a hill.