 It is no easy matter to give novelty to old subjects, authority to new, to impart lustre to rusty things, light to the obscure and mysterious, to throw a charm over what is distasteful, to command credence for doubtful matters, to give nature to everything,...  Glass in the Old World - Page 31by Madeline Anne Wallace- Dunlop - 1882 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
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...obscuris lucem, fastiditts yratiam, duliis fidem, omnibus rcro naturam, ct iiaturte sine omnia—" It is no easy matter to give novelty to old subjects,...and to arrange everything according to its nature." PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. SINCE the publication of the former edition of this work in 1848, many... | |
 | George Dennis - Etruria - 1883 - 654 pages
...dubiis ßJcm, omnibus rero naturam, et natura suœ omnia — " It is no easy matter to give noveltj' to old subjects, authority to new, to impart lustre...and to arrange everything according to its nature." PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. SINCE the publication of the former edition of this work in 1848, many... | |
 | Gardner Callahan Teall - Art objects - 1920 - 384 pages
...lovely trinket whose fragility has defied the boast of bronze or the strength of stone! As Pliny says, it is no easy matter to give novelty to old subjects,...rusty things, light to the obscure and mysterious. Yet he who writes of antiques and curios may find the subject of old glass so wide a field in which... | |
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