 | Joseph Addison - 1765 - 400 pągines
...Auretius, Lucius Verus, Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Geta. There is in the fame gallery a beautiful huft of Alexander the great, cafting up his face to heaven, with a noble air of grief or difcontentednefs in his looks. I have feen two pr three antique bufts of 'Alexander in the fame air... | |
 | John Northall - 1766 - 518 pągines
...bigger than life. Ibid. p. 42}. Mr. Addifon makes the following remark : There is in the fame gallery a beautiful buft of Alexander the Great, cafting up his face to heaven, with a noble air of grief, or difcont£utednei>9 in his looks. I have feen two or three antique bufts of Alexander in the fame air... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1773 - 324 pągines
...Adrian, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, Scptimius Severus, Caracalla, Geta. There is in the fame gallery a beautiful buft of Alexander the great, cafting up his face to heaven, witlj, a noble air of grief or difcontentednefs in his loiAs. I have feen two or three antique bufts... | |
 | John Boyle Earl of Orrery - 1774 - 324 pągines
...notice of this exquifite piece of workmanfhip. His obfervation runs thus, " There is in the fame gallery a " very beautiful buft of Alexander the " great,...looks. I have feen two " or three antique bufts of Alexander in *' the fame air and pofture, and am " apt to think the fculptor had in his " thoughts... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 486 pągines
...Caracalla, Geta. There is, in the same gallery, a very beautiful bust of Alexander the Great, casting up his face to heaven, with a noble air of grief or discontentedness in his looks. I have seen two or three antique busts of Alexander in the same air... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 486 pągines
...Caracalla, Geta. There is, in the same gallery, a very beautiful .bust of Alexander the Great, casting up his face to heaven, with a noble air of grief or discontentedness in his looks. I have seen two or three antique busts of Alexander in the same air... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 318 pągines
...Caracalla, Geta. There is, in the same gallery, a very beautiful bust of Alexander the Great, casting up his face to heaven, with a noble air of grief or cliscontentedness in his looks. I have seen two 01' three antique busts of Alexander in the same air... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 270 pągines
...Severus, Caracalla, Geta. There is in the same gallery a beautiful bust of Alexander the Great, casting up his face to heaven, with a noble air of grief or discontentedness in his looks. I have seen two or three antique busts of Alexander in the same air... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 pągines
...Caracalla, Geta. There is, in the same gallery, a very beautiful bust of Alexander the Great, casting up his face to heaven, with a noble air of grief or discontentedness in his looks. I have seen two or three antique busts of Alexander in the same air... | |
 | sir Francis Palgrave - 1847 - 690 pągines
...Michael Angelo, at the age of fifteen years A very fine colossal bust of Alexander the Great, " casting up his face to heaven with a noble air of grief or discontentedness in his looks," called Alexander dying. Alfieri wrote a fine sonnet on- it. — A superb... | |
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I have seen two or three antique Busts of Alexander in the same air and posture, and am apt to think the Sculptor had in his thoughts the Conqueror's weeping for new worlds, or some other the like circumstance of his history. 
