Gems, selected from the antique, with illustrations (1804)
Dagley, Richard, -1841, Murray, John, 1778-1843, Whittingham, Charles, 1767-1840 · London : Printed for John Murray, 32, Fleet Street, Dean Street by C. Whittingham · leaf 125
graceful had been the appropriate epithet—but the truth is,that the hasty poet often sacrificed his taste to his rapid genius, and seems to have borrowed his idea of Bacchus from the vulgar represen-tation of him on our sign posts, and so calls it (in downright English)Bacchuss honest face / On the… … IbiUthed MtircA 3t*jSti4 tr .John ICrr.tr .1? Ftttt Stral 1,n.Um. 47 BACCHUS REELING. FROM AN ANTIQUE PASTE IN THE KING OF PRUSSIAS COLLECTION. The god is here represented with his legs bending, on staggering feet, op-pressed by the copious inspirations of the grape. He raises his slight dra-pery…
Gems · Mythology, Greek · Art, Ancient
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