...thousands, but were frequently exposed to the outrages of a fanatical rabble. Churches and sepulchres, fine works of art and curious remains of antiquity,...MOTHER, should be burned. — Sculpture fared as ill as paintings. Nymphs and Graces, the work of Ionian chisels, were delivered over to Puritan stone-masons...

...thousands, but were frequently exposed to the outrages of a fanatical rabble. Churches and sepulchres, fino works of art, and curious remains of antiquity were...should be burned. Sculpture fared as ill as painting. S;/mphe and gracee, tl>( work of I rm i an chitéis, гкге delivered over to Fuiiian stone masons...

...barbarous, though, in the same proportion, less provoked. " Churches and sepulehers," says Macaulay, " fine works of art and curious remains of antiquity,...defaced. The Parliament resolved that all pictures in the P* royal collection which contained representations of Jesus, or of the Virgin Mother, should be burned....

...thousands, but were frequently exposed to the outrages of a fanatical rabble. Churches and sepulchres, fine works of art and curious remains of antiquity, were brutally defaced. The parliament resol ved, that all pictures in the royal collection, which contained representations of JESUS, or...

...Calvinistvc mode of worship. C!erg\men of respectable character were not only ejected from their benifices by thousands, but were frequently exposed to the outrages...as painting. Nymphs and Graces, the work of Ionian chissels, were delivered over to Puritan stone-masons to be made decent. Against the lighter vices...

...insidious "popish contrivance." Only a few years before the period under consideration Parliament had resolved that "all pictures in the royal collection which contained representations of Jesus or the Virgin Mother should be burned ; Greek statnes were delivered over to Puritan stone-masons to be...

...insidious "popish contrivance." Only a few years before the period under consideration Parliament had resolved that " all pictures in the royal collection which contained representations of Jesus or the Virgin Mother should be burnt; Greek statues were delivered over to Puritan stone-masons to be...

...which art might not safely go P What, too, if, in their zeal for purity, " nymphs and Graces, the works of Ionian chisels, were delivered over to Puritan stonemasons to be made decent " P (Macaulay.) Let it be remembered that the age was profligate and vicious. The Puritans were moved...

...thousands, but were frequently exposed to the outrages of a fanatical rabble. Churches and sepulchres, fine works of art and curious remains of antiquity,...Puritan stonemasons to be made decent. Against the N lighter vices the ruling faction waged war with a zeal little tempered by humanity or by common sense....

...thousands, but were frequently exposed to the outrages of a fanatical rabble. Churches and sepulchres, fine works of art and curious remains of antiquity,...resolved that all pictures in the royal collection 1 Macaulay thought lightly of his essay on Milton ; but it may be doubted whether any of his works...