 Bernini, the Florentine sculptor, architect, painter and poet, a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the music, writ the comedy and built the theatre.  The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 2601824Full view - About this book
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1881 - 592 pages
...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 - 308 pages
...sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, ivherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...the music, writ the comedy, and built the theatre." " There is nothing in war," said Napoleon, " which I cannot do by my own hands. If there is nobody... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 328 pages
...sculptor, architect, painter and poet, a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...the music, writ the comedy and built the theatre." "There is nothing in war," said Napoleon, " which I cannot do by my own hands. If there is nobody to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 336 pages
...sculptor, architect, painter and poet, a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...the music, writ the comedy and built the theatre." " There is nothing in war " said Napoleon, " which I cannot do by my own hands. If there is nobody... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein ould have the power over things to its own ends. The...to live and work through all things. It would be t "There is nothing in war," said Napoleon, " which I cannot do by my own hands. If there is nobody to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 328 pages
...sculptor, architect, painter and poet, a little before my coming to Kome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...the music, writ the comedy and built the theatre." "There is nothing in war" said Napoleon, " which I cannot do by my own hands. If there is nobody to... | |
 | William Stirling Maxwell - 1891 - 556 pages
...coming to this citty, gave a publiq opera (for so they call shews of that kind), wherein lie paiuted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines,...the music], writ the comedy, and built the theatre." Memoirs and Diary of John Evelyn, 5 vols. 8vo, London, 1827, voL i. pp. 189-190. the Campagna bestrode... | |
 | Sir William Stirling Maxwell - 1891 - 556 pages
...before my coming to this citty, gave a publiq opera (for so 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 ami Diary of John Evelyti, 5 vols. 8vp, London,... | |
 | Frank Archer - 1892 - 246 pages
...that he got his own by being assassinated at twenty-three in the public streets ! " an opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues invented the...the music, writ the comedy and built the theatre." He must have forgotten to play the leading part ! His eminence as sculptor, architect and painter we... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1901 - 432 pages
...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...composed the music, writ the comedy, and built the theater. Opposite to either of these pillars, under those niches which, with their columns, support... | |
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