| Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1824 - 842 pages
...a little before my coming to the city, gave a public opera, (for so they call shows of that kind), wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented...the music, writ the comedy, and built the theatre." the bad taste of the times, could only have been tolerated under the sanction of his influence and... | |
| 1824 - 808 pages
...the Vatican which soon eclipsed all the private theatres in Rome; where, as our old Evelyn says, " he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...the music, writ the comedy, and built the theatre. The dramas of the Vatican had all the faults of the dramatic compositions of that age of degraded literature... | |
| William Stirling Maxwell - 1848 - 486 pages
...little before my coming to this citty, gave a pIVbliq opera, (for yo they call shews of that kind) wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the musiq, writ the comedy, and built the theatre." Memoirs and Diary of John Evelyn; 5 vols. Svo., London... | |
| John Evelyn - 1850 - 512 pages
...who, a little before my coming to the city, gave a public opera (for so they call shows of that kind), wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented...the music, writ the comedy, and built the theatre. Opposite to either of these pillars, under those niches which with their columns support the weighty... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1854 - 484 pages
...says that a short time before his arrival at Rome, the artist arranged the public performance of an opera, ' wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues,...the music, writ the comedy, and built the theatre.' Evelyn visited the Villa Ludovisi, where the statue of the Dying Gladiator then was ; and also the... | |
| John Evelyn - 1878 - 540 pages
...who, a little before my coming to the city, gave a pubhc opera (for so they call shows of that kind), wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented...the music, writ the comedy, and built the theatre. Opposite to either of these pillars, under those niches which, with their columns, support the weighty... | |
| 1893 - 708 pages
...field, while yet innocent of company drill, or of the formation and evolutions of a single battallion. "There is nothing in war," said Napoleon, "which I...know how to construct. If it is necessary to make cannon at the forge, I can make them. The details of working them in battle, if it is necessary to... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1881 - 592 pages
...says that a short time before his arrival at Rome, the artist arranged the public performance of an opera, ' wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the music, writ 'lie comedy, and built the theatre. Evelyn visited the Villa Ludovisi, where the statue of the Dying... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 558 pages
...tho scenes, cut tho statues, invented the engines, composed tho music, writ tho comedy, and built tho theatre." " There is nothing in war," said Napoleon,...is nobody to make gunpowder, I can manufacture it Tho guncarriages I know how to construct If it is necessary to make cannons at tho forgo, I can make... | |
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