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When we contemplate the statue of Apollo , we do not descant on the chisel . But those letters and that chisel must have been known and used , or words could not have existed , and the statue would still have slumbered in its block .
When we contemplate the statue of Apollo , we do not descant on the chisel . But those letters and that chisel must have been known and used , or words could not have existed , and the statue would still have slumbered in its block .
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A statue of Esculapius was his next work ; he carved it in marble , and it is still to be seen in a villa near Venice . It is chiefly remarkable for the circumstance of having received a visit from the artist , a few months before his ...
A statue of Esculapius was his next work ; he carved it in marble , and it is still to be seen in a villa near Venice . It is chiefly remarkable for the circumstance of having received a visit from the artist , a few months before his ...
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... and then with one voice pronounced it to be one of the most perfect works which Rome had beheld for ages . From this fortunate hour to the end of his life , he produced a rapid succession of statues and groups , which carried his ...
... and then with one voice pronounced it to be one of the most perfect works which Rome had beheld for ages . From this fortunate hour to the end of his life , he produced a rapid succession of statues and groups , which carried his ...
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Even in the statue of the Kneeling Magdalen there is enough of affectation to poison the charms of the most exquisite workmanship and the loveliest shape . In the progress of Canova's taste , however , the student in sculpture may read ...
Even in the statue of the Kneeling Magdalen there is enough of affectation to poison the charms of the most exquisite workmanship and the loveliest shape . In the progress of Canova's taste , however , the student in sculpture may read ...
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More than fifty of his groups and statues are from heathen history , fabulous or real , and most of them indeed bear the ... Theseus and the Minotaur ; Statue of Cupid ; Venus crowning Adonis , with Cupid bringing Flowers ; a Statue of ...
More than fifty of his groups and statues are from heathen history , fabulous or real , and most of them indeed bear the ... Theseus and the Minotaur ; Statue of Cupid ; Venus crowning Adonis , with Cupid bringing Flowers ; a Statue of ...
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Page 156 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 92 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Page 356 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Page 139 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found ; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? — He finds us all brick and he leaves us all plaster.
Page 250 - Fathom ; or to the terrible description of a sea-engagement, in which Roderick Random sits chained and exposed upon the poop, without the power of motion or exertion, during the carnage of a tremendous engagement. Upon many other occasions, Smollett's descriptions ascend to the sublime ; and, in general, there is an air of romance in his writings, which raises his narratives above the level and easy course of ordinary life. He was, like a preeminent poet of our own day, a searcher of dark bosoms,...
Page 249 - ... such, had it never crossed the press. And it is with concern we add our sincere belief, that the fine picture of frankness and generosity exhibited in that fictitious character has had as few imitators as the career of his follies. Let it not be supposed that we are indifferent to morality, because we treat with scorn that affectation which, while in common life it connives at the open practice of libertinism, pretends to detest the memory of an author who painted life as it was, with all its...
Page 219 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Page 233 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 34 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1826 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2005 |
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