Engraved gems; their history and place in art, in which is embodied the author's former treatise, with extensive revisions and additions; reminiscences of travels in the pursuit and acquisition of engraved gems ... to which is added a descriptive list of the author's cabinet of gems, forming a compend of Greek and Roman classics and antiquities .. (1889)
Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904 · Philadelphia, M. Sommerville · leaf 339
)ports tlie bowl, and guides his head that tohis lips may come these first drops of learning; he gives himjuice of grapes newly pressed. (Bacchus found pleasure incrushing the wine-giving g-rapes, as he who draws the yellowgold from quartz.) The attendant mother and nymph withall their tenderness… … EDUCATION OF BACCHUS. 335 thoiig-littul care tlieyve made read} in a basin on thetnrf. The spoon of large dimensions patiently awaits its turn toserve the prince, the heir-apparent to the king of all inebriates,more placidly than does the nrcliin his idaymate, who leansoer the schoolmasters…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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