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Strange to say, the influence is not that of Michelangelo, but, unless the writer is greatly deceived, that of Donatello, whose noble ascetic type of the Precursor is here modernised, and in the process deprived of some of its austerity. The glorious mountain landscape, with its brawling stream, fresher and truer than any torrent of Ruysdael's, is all Titian. It makes the striking figure of St.
True, we cannot trace the genealogy of the present version beyond middle of the sixteenth century, but its references to ancient monuments existing at date of its compilation show it to be many centuries older. Its language proves little or nothing, for, being a popular work, it would be modernised to date by each successive scribe. Colgan was of opinion it was a composition of the eighth century.
Before we pass on to the consideration of those castra which, like Manchester and Lancaster, have preserved to the present day their original Roman or Celtic prefixes in more or less altered shapes, we must glance briefly at a general principle running through the modernised forms now in use.
He disapproved of Lord Hailes, for having modernised the language of the ever-memorable John Hales of Eton , in an edition which his Lordship published of that writer's works. Besides, Sir, when the language is changed we are not sure that the sense is the same. No, Sir; I am sorry Lord Hailes has done this.
The main arch is now blocked up, forming a wall to one of the prebendal houses. The dining room of this same house was the Infirmarer's house, and has much very interesting Early English work. To the south of the Infirmary is another ancient house, though much modernised. Before entering the Cloister court we pass through the old slype, once a simple vaulted passage, but now open to the sky.
He has spent a great deal of money upon the Court already, and means to spend more I hear." "Has he spoiled it modernised it, or anything of that kind?" "No; I am glad to say that he or his architect perhaps has had the good taste to preserve the mediaeval character of the place.
We turn W. along the Rue des Petits Champs and skirt the W. walls of the modernised palace northwards along the Rue de Richelieu to the main Cour d'Honneur, opposite the Square Louvois.
But, on another side, the greater Mount of the Archangel may be seen far away floating on its bay, and the position of the chapel itself old, but modernised and no great work of art called up for a moment that chapel of Saint Blaise on the Akragantine rocks, which once was the temple of Dêmêtêr and her Child.
That gentleman, enlivened by the wine he had taken, pranced with a new flexibility along the side-walk. "Like the count in Don Juan," Niebeldingk thought, "only newly equipped and modernised." The intervention of the young officer placed the whole affair upon an intelligible basis. It remained only to treat it with entire seriousness.
As it is, certain things are so inevitable the integration of a modernised Bengal, of China, and of Egypt, for example that the question before us is practically reduced to whether this restoration of the subject peoples will be done with the European's aid and goodwill, or whether it will be done against him. That it will be done in some manner or other is certain.
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