Epochs of the Arts Including Hints On the Use And Progress of Painting And Scul
Epochs of the Arts Including Hints On the Use And Progress of Painting And Scul
Prince Hoare
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Every example of virtue and genius was consecrated to the glory of the State, throughout all the various pursuits of civic life. Not the Marlboroughs and Nelsons alone of Greece enjoyed the national honours of the Painters' and the Sculptors' toil; but the Newtons, the Miltons, the Johnsons, also, of that land became a part of the publick fame. It was this imposing combination, this i298 CELEBRATED EPOCHS OF part in. splendid exercise of the power of the State, assuming and appropriating to its...elf the re- nown of all talents, all arts, all sciences, all heroic achievements, whether of strength or mentfil intellect, to be found among the whole people, that surrounded it with such a varie- gated crown of fame, and covered it with such a blaze of glory. Let us now turn to the second epoch. The genius of Pericles having first discover- ed, and his example pointed out, the means of rendering the Arts contributive to the glory of a State, the lofty mind of Alexander seized, with no less felicity, the principle which had guided the Athenian.
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