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Peace-loving, inert, fond of his dinner, fonder of his magnificent collections of gems and intagli, liking to look out of window at his splendid collection of horses, he was willing to pass a quiet life, afar from the din of battles and the turmoil of affairs. As he happened to be emperor of half Europe, these harmless tastes could not well be indulged.
Of this work, whether engraved in intaglio or in relief, we have seen examples discovered daily among the ruins of Rome, such as cameos, cornelians, sardonyxes, and other most excellent intagli; but for many and many a year the art remained lost, there being no one who gave attention to it, and even if any work was done, it was not in such a manner as to be worthy to be taken into account.
Joseph Curious letter as Cartouche Madame de Routh Cartouche again Goring sent to England A cypher Portrait of Madame de Talmond Portrait of Madame d'Aiguillon Intellectual society Mademoiselle Luci 'Dener Bash' The secret hoard Results of Goring's English mission Timidity of English Jacobites Supply of money Charles a bibliophile 'My big muff' A patron of art Quarrels with Madame de Talmond Arms for a rising Newton on Cluny Kindness to Monsieur Le Coq Madame de Talmond weary of Charles Letters to her Charles reads Fielding's novels Determines to go to England Large order of arms Reproached by James Intagli of James En route for London September 1750.
He estimates them as worth at least five hundred ducats." "Ah, then, they are fine intagli!" said Bardo. "Five hundred ducats! Ah, more than a man's ransom!"
Peace-loving, inert, fond of his dinner, fonder of his magnificent collections of gems and intagli, liking to look out of window at his splendid collection of horses, he was willing to pass a quiet life, afar from the din of battles and the turmoil of affairs. As he happened to be emperor of half Europe, these harmless tastes could not well be indulged.
"Ah, then, they are fine intagli," said Bardo. "Five hundred ducats! Ah, more than a man's ransom!" Tito gave a slight, almost imperceptible start, and opened his long dark eyes with questioning surprise at Bardo's blind face, as if his words a mere phrase of common parlance, at a time when men were often being ransomed from slavery or imprisonment had had some special meaning for him.
Read it as I read it, and you will set the right value on the Sergeant's polite attention in sending me the news of the day: "LAMBETH Shortly before the closing of the court, Mr. Septimus Luker, the well-known dealer in ancient gems, carvings, intagli, &c., &c., applied to the sitting magistrate for advice.
"But," he resumed, in his original tone of condescension, "we are departing from what I believe is your most important business. Nello informed me that you had certain gems which you would fain dispose of." "I have one or two intagli of much beauty," said Tito. "But they are now in the keeping of Messer Domenico Cennini, who has a strong and safe place for such things.
At Santa Maria in Organo, where are the wonderful intagli of Fra Giovanni da Verona, the sacristan fully shared our sorrow that the best pictures could not be unveiled as it was Holy Week.
If Nature had made Valerio a good master of design, even as she made him most excellent in engraving, in which he executed his works with extraordinary patience, diligence, and rapidity, he would not merely have equalled the ancients, as he did, but would have surpassed them by a great measure; and even so he had such judgment, that he always availed himself in his works of the designs of others or of the intagli of the ancients.
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