SCULPTURE._The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac

Admirable monuments remain to us of the perfection to which the ancients

carried the arts of sculpture and design. The Niobé and the Laocoon, the

Venus de Medicis, the Hercules stifling Antæus, that other Hercules who

rests upon his club, the dying gladiator, and that other in the vineyard

of Borghese, the Apollo Belvedere, the maimed Hercules, and the Equerry

in the action of breaking a horse on mount Quirinal, loudly proclaim the

superiority of the ancients in those arts. These excellences are to be

observed upon their medals, their engraved precious stones, and their

_cameos_.

The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac · 第 1735 / 1847 题