 | 1793 - 870 páginas
...and the fluttering veil, With pointing finger guides the initiate youth, Unweaves the many - colourd veil of truth, Drives the profane from myftery's bolted...the portrait breathe, And bind round Honours brow fhe laurel wreath; Buoyant fhall fail , with fame's hiftoric page, Each fair medallion o'er the wrecks... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1798 - 472 páginas
...the profane from Myftery's bolted door, And Silence guards the Eleufmian lore. — 340 " Whether, O Friend of Art ! your gems derive Fine forms from Greece,...from modern life the Portrait breathe, And bind round Honour's brow the laurel wreath; Buoyant mall fail, with Fame's hiftoric page, 345 Each fair medallion... | |
 | John Ward - 1843 - 758 páginas
...And pleas'd, on Wedgwood ray your partial smile, A new Etruria decks Britannia's isle." " Whether, O friend of art! your gems derive Fine forms from Greece,...from modern life the portrait breathe, And bind round Honour's brow the laurel wreath ; Buoyant shall sail, with Fame's historic page. Each fair medallion... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1859 - 296 páginas
...Or, bid Mortality rejoice and mourn, O'er the fine forms on Portland's mystic urn ; — Whether, 0 Friend of Art ! your gems derive Fine forms from Greece,...from modern life the portrait breathe, And bind round Honour's brow the laurel wreath ; — Buoyant shall sail, with Fame's historic page, Each fair medallion... | |
 | Leopold Brandl - 1909 - 552 páginas
...plead with angel-tone for Me!" (H, 821—840.) Whether, 0 Friend of Art! your gems derive Fine forme from Greece, and fabled Gods revive; Or bid from modern life the portrait breathe, And bind round Honour's brow the laurel wreath; Buoyant shall sail, with Fame's historic page, Each fair medallion... | |
 | Julia Wedgwood, Charles Harold Herford - 1915 - 500 páginas
...incalculable circumstance, so that it remains unique and beyond imitation even by its creator. " Whether, O Friend of Art ! your gems derive Fine forms from Greece,...from modern life the Portrait breathe, And bind round Honour's brow the laurel wreath ; Buoyant shall sail, with Fame's historic page, Each fair medallion... | |
 | William Henry Beable - 1926 - 454 páginas
...chapter with the epitaph on Josiah Wedgwood by Dr. Erasmus Darwin in the " Botanic Garden." " Whether, O friend of art, your gems derive Fine forms from Greece,...from modern life the portrait breathe, And bind round Honour's brow the laurel wreath. Buoyant shall sail, with fame's historic page Each fair medallion... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 2007 - 25 páginas
...pottery (Canto II, lines 291-348) include some kind words about Wedgwood's achievements: Whether, O Friend of Art! your gems derive Fine forms from Greece,...from modern life the Portrait breathe, And bind round Honour's brow the laurel wreath; Buoyant shall sail, with Fame's historic page, Each fair medallion... | |
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Friend of Art ! your gems derive Fine forms from Greece, and fabled gods revive ; Or bid from modern life the portrait breathe, And bind round Honour's brow the laurel wreath ; — Buoyant shall sail, with Fame's historic page, Each fair medallion o'er... 