history-piece

One of these was of a nature so interesting and singular, that my attention was divided between my wish to draw the old ruins in landscape, and to represent, in a history-piece, the singular events which have taken place in it.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece: he imagines an heroic countenance.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces, in a history-piece; he imagines a heroic countenance.

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

But the foremost figure of the great history-piece of revolution, was the man, of whose latter hours we are now contemplating.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

It unhappily was left unfinished, in this great history-piece of the massacre of innocents.

Paras. 100-124 1909

Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece: he imagines an heroic countenance.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Mr. Gunman, the descendant of the captain, has lately had a picture on the subject painted by Serres, the marine painter; which makes an interesting history-piece.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882

Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces, in a history-piece; he imagines a heroic countenance.

Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849

Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces, in a history-piece; he imagines a heroic countenance.

Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821

Christian chivalry, -- and to substantiate the distinct and graceful profiles or outlines of the Homeric epic into the flesh and blood of the romantic drama, -- in short, to give a grand history-piece in the robust style of Albert Durer.

Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803