Bye-paths in Curio CollectingT.F. Unwin Limited, 1919 - 462 psl. |
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23 psl.
... beautiful . It is idle to suppose that those of the public who commence " collecting " will realize that the ground is salted . New generations of col- lectors arise who are wise according to their lights , but not wise enough to see ...
... beautiful . It is idle to suppose that those of the public who commence " collecting " will realize that the ground is salted . New generations of col- lectors arise who are wise according to their lights , but not wise enough to see ...
26 psl.
... beautiful . There is inherent in the artistic mind the love of creating something original , as there is in the true collector's heart of seizing the unappreciated and the unfashionable . Don't follow , lead ; that is the motto for the ...
... beautiful . There is inherent in the artistic mind the love of creating something original , as there is in the true collector's heart of seizing the unappreciated and the unfashionable . Don't follow , lead ; that is the motto for the ...
27 psl.
... when he adds it to his collection his judgment is sound . Collect your own country's art or the art of any country ( but see that it is art ) ; preserve from destruction all that is beautiful . That is the INTRODUCTORY NOTE 27.
... when he adds it to his collection his judgment is sound . Collect your own country's art or the art of any country ( but see that it is art ) ; preserve from destruction all that is beautiful . That is the INTRODUCTORY NOTE 27.
28 psl.
Arthur Hayden. from destruction all that is beautiful . That is the mission of the collector . Every collector has made mistakes , and he is lucky who has made few . The art of the fabri- cator is of greater antiquity than the objects ...
Arthur Hayden. from destruction all that is beautiful . That is the mission of the collector . Every collector has made mistakes , and he is lucky who has made few . The art of the fabri- cator is of greater antiquity than the objects ...
29 psl.
... beautiful . In the old days their possessors were not particu- larly aware that their treasures were worthy of note . But they have passed through two great periods of curious scrutiny by town dwellers and others . First was the cycling ...
... beautiful . In the old days their possessors were not particu- larly aware that their treasures were worthy of note . But they have passed through two great periods of curious scrutiny by town dwellers and others . First was the cycling ...
Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
A. E. Smith amulets artistic beautiful Bible Bible box blue bowl brass cabinet candle carved casket Caspar Netscher Charles chest china Chinese coffer collection collector colour costume cups decoration Dutch ear-rings early earthenware eighteenth century enamel England English engraving Etruria Evil Eye examples exhibited factory faience fashion figures French glaze green handle head Hispano-Moresque House illustrated inches inscribed inscription Ireland Irish Italian jars Josiah Wedgwood ladies late eighteenth later Liverpool London Lowestoft marquetry metal modern origin ornament pack painted period pipe plate playing cards porcelain portrait printed profile painter Queen regard rich rococo Rouen royal salt salt cellars seventeenth century SHEFFIELD PLATED shows silhouette silver snuffers Spanish specimens spinning spinning-wheels Staffordshire style symbols tea-pot tiles tinder box tobacco tobacco boxes tobacco stoppers Toby jug toys transfer-printed types various vases ware wheel wood
Populiarios ištraukos
55 psl. - neath my tabernacle take my rest, With those nine columns round me, two and two, The odd one at my feet where Anselm stands: Peach-blossom marble all, the rare?; the ripe As fresh-poured red wine of a mighty pulse.
386 psl. - ... and can. I have heard that on a day Mine host's sign-board flew away, Nobody knew whither, till An astrologer's old quill To a sheepskin gave the story, Said he saw you in your glory, Underneath a new old sign Sipping beverage divine, And pledging with contented smack The Mermaid in the Zodiac.
113 psl. - What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy. Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
384 psl. - It is the moon I ken her horn, That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie ; She shines sae bright to...
157 psl. - For while with their knife which they hold in one hand they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten the forke which they hold in their other hand upon the same dish, so that whatsoever he be that sitting in the company of any others at...
199 psl. - We had an elegant house situated in a fine country, and a good neighbourhood. The year was spent in moral or rural amusements, in visiting our rich neighbours, and relieving such as were poor. We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo ; all our adventures were by the fire-side, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
128 psl. - ... any spring-gun, man-trap, or other engine calculated to destroy human life or inflict grievous bodily harm, with intent that the same or whereby the same may destroy or inflict grievous bodily harm...
68 psl. - If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost.
33 psl. - ... be served; the parlour is decorated with so many piles of china, that I dare not step within the door; at every turn of the stairs I have a clock, and half the windows of the upper floors are darkened that shelves may be set before them.
129 psl. - ... such as may have been or may be usually set or placed with the intent of destroying vermin : Provided also, that nothing in this section shall be deemed to make it unlawful to set or place, or cause to be set or placed, or to be continued set or placed, from sunset to sunrise, any spring gun, man trap, or other engine which shall be set or placed, or caused or continued to be set or placed, in a dwelling house, for the protection thereof.