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...und the three high doors (with recesses deep enough for several circles of sculpture) and indent the four great buttresses that ascend beside the huge... ...e cor- nice and the angles of the arches, being covered with the daintiest sculpture of arabesques, flowers, fruit, medal- lions, cherubs, griffins, a... ...te; and the re- cesses of the windows, with their happy proportions, their sculpture, and their color, are the empty frames of bril- liant pictures. T... ...at you from the windows, from the balconies, from the thick foliage of the sculpture. The portion of the wing of Louis XII. that looks toward the cour... ...s utterance of the French Renaissance. It is covered with an embroidery of sculpture, in which every detail is worthy of the hand of a goldsmith. In t... ... is of receat origin. The cool, still, empty chambers in which indifferent collections are apt to be preserved, the red brick tiles, the diffused ligh... ...st with vintners. The gem of the place is the Musee Fabre, one of the best collections of paintings in a provincial city. Francois Fabre, a native of ...

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...y were great creatures. They came, it was clearly traceable, from pictures sculpture—and from a definite re- sponse in myself to their beauty. My moth... ...ith- out metals, without beasts of burthen, without letters, with- out any sculpture that has left a trace, and yet with a sense of astronomical fact ... ...ert thought; they were no mere display specimens from one of those jackdaw collections of bright things so many clever women waste their wits in accum... ...hedral. The three tourists devoted a golden half hour before dinner to the sculptures on the western face. The great screen of wrought stone rose up w... ...e Roman Baths. The Pulteney they found hung with pictures and adorned with sculpture to an astonishing extent; some former proprietor must have had a ...

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...esent [certain of ] the manuscripts to the Bodleian Library, and verse and sculpture form an imperishable me- morial of his connection with the Univer... ...ylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe’er of strange, Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, Dark ... ... verse, mourning the memory Of that which is no more, or painting’s woe Or sculpture, speak in feeble imagery Their own cold powers. Art and eloquence... ...serts of the Universe; Yet, nor in painting’s light, or mightier verse, Or sculpture’s marble language, can invest That shape to mortal sense—such glo... ...f of moonstone carved, did keep A glimmering o’er the forms on every side, Sculptures like life and thought, immovable, deep-eyed. _585 52 52 52 5... ...lections Of pedlars tramping on their rounds; Milk-pans and pails; and odd collections _430 Of saws, and proverbs; and ref...

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...f the harmony of proportion, and the surpassing beauty of the carvings and sculpture. It did not need so much study to enjoy Lionardo da Vinci’s great... ...marvels of Vesuvius and Pompeii, the travellers went on to Rome. There the sculptures were Coley’s first delight, and he had the advantage of hints fr... ...he missionary would feel interrupted by the overflowing notes on painting, sculpture and architecture which fill the corre- spondence, yet without the... ...d work among the islands lately , but you know in whose hands we are.’ The collections both at the door and on the following Sun- day were very large,...

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...th other refuse of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, into the costly collections of the ‘British Poets.’ And really, if you will insist on odiou... ...hat sort of faultless beauty which probably does really exist in the Greek sculpture. There are few things perfect in this world of frailty. Even ligh... ...ich (poor things!) cannot improve by experi- ence. As to man who does, the sculpture of the Greeks in their marbles and sometimes in their gems, seems... ...is is a ten- dency naturally favored and strengthened in them, by the fine collections of books, carried forward through successive generations, which... ... best conveyed by saying that the Grecian is a breathing from the world of sculpture, the English a breathing from the world of painting. What we read... ...pture, the English a breathing from the world of painting. What we read in sculpture is not absolutely death, but still less is it the fulness of life... ...a life that is thrown to an infinite distance. This last is the feature of sculpture which seems most characteristic: the form which presides in the m...

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...son of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great cla... ...us accumulation of old law-papers and old tin boxes, some of them of Peter’s hoarding, some of his father’s, John, first of the dynasty, a great man i...

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...ide of the street to the number indicated upon the precious letter. The house pre- sented an imposing chocolate-colored expanse, relieved by facings a... ...d to have the entree, was very grateful to the slightly bewildered voyagers. He showed them their stateroom—a spacious apartment, embellished with gas... ...tentive enough to make up for the accidental absences, the short memories, all the other irregularities of everyone else. He drove them in the park, h...

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...hich it was fastened. Such a dress is seen upon many of the figures in the sculptures of 46 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two Persepo... ...fashion in use, was, however, the prevailing one—as we learn both from the sculptures at Persepolis, and from the costume of the High Priest. Great as... ...neighbors, resembles the dress of Dacian cap- 119 Thomas de Quincey tives sculptured on the triumphal monuments of Rome; and lastly, their peculiar n... ...d the first rudiments of culture show 121 Thomas de Quincey themselves in collections of these missiles along the roads. Hence, in fact, a general mi...

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...ions on it. I do not, therefore, though an earnest admirer of Painting and Sculpture, expa tiate at any length on famous Pictures and Statues. This B... ... lair, and the show was over. 133 Charles Dickens AT THE HEAD OF THE COLLECTIONS in the palaces of Rome, the Vatican, of course, with its treasu... ...here is a considerable amount of rubbish there, too. When any old piece of sculpture dug out of the ground, finds a place in a gallery because it is o... ... statues; the wonderful gravity and repose of many of the ancient works in sculpture, both in the Capitol and the Vatican; and the strength and fire o...

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...and in the same sequence. There are people who take a pleasure in mak- ing collections of all such fortuitous occurrences that they have heard or read... ...eased with a cup of Persian manufacture, and how curiously he surveyed the sculpture and fashion of it, desired him to poise it in his hand, and consi... ...uline look, that reminded people of the faces of Hercules in paintings and sculptures. It was, moreover, an ancient tradition, that the Antonys were d...

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..., Those tower-encircled cities stood. A vision strange such towers to see, Sculptured and wrought so gorgeously, _55 Wh... ... _115 19. 19. 19. 19. 19. For it was filled with sculptures rarest, Of forms most beautiful and strange, 36 V olume Two Lik... ... “Rosalind and Helen”, 1819. Amongst the late Mr. Fredk. Locker- Lampson’s collections at Rowfant there is a manuscript of the lines (167-205) on Byro... ...chy succeeds to Freedom’s foison. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. In Pisa’s church a cup of sculptured gold _15 Was brimming with the blood ...

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... of a type of peasantry he had seen in old tapes- tries, old pictures, old sculptures, and which, up to this time, had seemed to him imaginary. He res... ...eir joy, told Madame Soudry the promise the gen- eral had made about these collections, without reflecting that the present collector of Soulanges, a ... ...among them was that of the chief magistrate of former days,—a house with a sculptured front on a line with the church, to which it forms a fine accomp... ...es!” Besides these things he had a fine array of fossil shells, mostly the collections of his friends which they bequeathed to him, and all the min- e...

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...nny steamer to the Tower; they looked at pictures both in public and private collections and sat on various occasions beneath the great trees in Kensi... ...It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great company of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; which, as ... ...the land of consideration. His tastes, his studies, his accomplishments, his collections, were all for a purpose. His life on his hilltop at Florence ... ...Goodwood smoked a cigar with him afterwards and even desired to be shown his collections. Gilbert said to Isabel that he was very original; he was as ...

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...s impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great com- pany of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; which, as wi... ...odwood smoked a cigar with him afterwards and even desired to be shown his collections. Gilbert said to Isabel that he was very original; he was as st...

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...ll daily be- hold; namely, the inconceivable mystery of having written and sculptured upon the tablets of man’s heart a new code of moral distinctions... ...f another principle—the conservative feeling of amateurship. Several great collections have been bequeathed to the British Museum, for instance—not ch... ...ellished, recommended to the affections of men, and hallowed by the votive sculptures, as I may say, of that affec- tion, gathering in amount from age... ...conse- quently, as each was sealed with a private seal of the Landgrave’s, sculptured elaborately with his armorial bear- ings, forgery would have bee... ...e saintly memorials about them, the records of everlasting peace which lay sculptured at their feet, and the strains which still ascended to heaven fr...

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... the mighty base of the Pyra- mid of Cheops. There are no inscriptions, no sculpture, no clue, by which to conjecture its history; nothing but the dum... ...e Globe, in which volume are several extracts from ‘Dalrymple’s Historical Collections’. The last- mentioned work I have never seen, but it is said to...

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... Mike Monday, yet he had once awakened his fold to new life, and to larger collections, by the challenge, “My brethren, the real cheap skate is the ma... ...ed with pictures of riding-breeches and California bungalows, the views on sculpture and international politics of blankly beautiful, suspiciously bea...

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...an urn, and a broken sword and a couchant lion indicated that the piece of sculpture had been erected in honour of a deceased warrior. The sculp- tors... ...unt Paolo della Belladonna), so well known for his brilliant entomological collections, had been long absent on a mission to the Emperor of Morocco. W...

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...he same on the walls of your German, French and Spanish castles, and Italian collections, For know a better, fresher, busier sphere, a wide, untried d... ...is very scene. The dame of dames! can I believe then, Those ancient temples, sculptures classic, could none of them retain her? Nor shades of Virgil a... ...es, or agriculture itself? Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate ... ...lose my scholars dear, Doctrines, politics and civilization exurge from you, Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in y... ...th oval countenances learn’d and calm, Some naked and savage, some like huge collections of insects, Some in tents, herdsmen, patriarchs, tribes, hors...

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...e of deposition and of denudation —On the poorness of our palaeontological collections — On the intermittence of geological formations — On the absenc... ...wer. But, in some Compositous plants, the seeds also dif- fer in shape and sculpture; and even the ovary itself, with its accessory parts, differs, as... ...ogical history. The crust of the earth is a vast mu- seum; but the natural collections have been made only at intervals of time immensely remote. But ... ...e of deposition and of denudation —On the poorness of our palaeontological collections — On the intermittence of geological formations — On the absenc... ...oorness of our Palaeontological collec- tions. — That our palaeontological collections are very imperfect, is admitted by every one. The remark of tha... ...es are similarly characterised in such trifling points as mere superficial sculpture. Moreover other forms, which are not found in the Chalk of Europe... ...in area, are often characterised by tri- fling characters in common, as of sculpture or colour. In looking to the long succession of ages, as in now l... ... have been connected by the finest gradations, the best, or indeed, if our collections were nearly perfect, the only possible arrangement, would be ge...

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...e those of the celebrated Joseph Mede, which we find in Ellis’s Historical Collections, reporting to their fellow-collegians all the novelties of publ... ...rrangements for working by subordinate hands. Such a process may answer in sculpture, because there a quantity of rough-hewing oc- curs, which can no ... ...nted the image of repose midway between life and death, like the repose of sculpture; and to one who knew his history a repose affectingly contrasting... ...style, but otherwise has been little relished. It has the beauty of marble sculpture, say the critics of Goethe, but also the coldness. We are not oft...

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...elabra lit up the slightest details of gilded friezes, the delicate bronze sculpture, and the splendid colors of the furniture. The sweet scent of rar... ...terlaced figures blended with the white marbles, the noble masterpieces of sculpture that adorned the rooms. Though the two friends yet preserved a so... ...ion of General Soult, Lescombat’s letters, a few sayings scattered through collections of anec- dotes; but most of all the prayers of religious ecstat...

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...ral History, —who, during my absence, took charge of 5 Charles Darwin the collections I sent home, and by his correspon- dence directed my endeavours... ...mellicorn and Heteromerous insects, the latter remarkable for their deeply sculptured bodies, were slowly crawling about; while the lizard tribe, the ... ...; they equalle in the size of their huge heads and necks the Grecian marbl sculptures. Capt. Sulivan informs me that the hide of a average-sized bull ... ...- tion to this statement, and I had already partially mingled together the collections from two of the is- lands. I never dreamed that islands, about ... ...nce, however, must not be placed in the proportional results, as the small collections brought home by some other naturalists though in some respects ... ...es from the nearest part of Albemarle Island, but the two points where the collections were made are thirty-two miles apart. I must repeat, that neith...

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... Painting be more niggardly in displaying her masterpieces than her sister Sculpture? And yet, my friend, we must part suddenly; the carpenter is comi... ...e, which those of the nobility and gentry who might wish to complete their collections of modern art were invited to visit without delay. So ended Dic... ...m the recess of the earth in open day, and winded its way among the broken sculpture and moss-grown stones which lay in confusion around its source. T...

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...ered into a snuggery where the chief furniture would probably be books and collections of natural objects. The Vicar himself seemed to wear rather a c... ...face around the simply braided dark brown hair. She was not looking at the sculpture, probably not thinking of it: her large eyes were fixed dreamily o... ...her that Naumann had first seen her, and he had entered the long gallery of sculpture at the same time with her; but here Naumann had to await Ladislaw... ...eems to me a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty. The painting and sculpture may be wonderful, but the feeling is often low and brutal, and so... ...he was not fond of visiting that house, but she liked, as she said, to see collections of strange animals such as there would be at this funeral; and ... ...conversation, she never looked towards him any more than if she had been a sculptured Psyche modelled to look another way: and when, after being calle...

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...face around the simply braided dark-brown hair. She was not looking at the sculpture, prob- ably not thinking of it: her large eyes were fixed dreamil... ...er that Naumann had first seen her, and he had entered the long gallery of sculpture at the same time with her; but here Naumann had to await Ladislaw... ...eems to me a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty. The painting and sculpture may be wonderful, but the feeling is often low and brutal, and so... ...he was not fond of visiting that house, but she liked, as she said, to see collections of strange animals such as there would be at this funeral; and ... ...conversation, she never looked towards him any more than if she had been a sculptured Psyche mod- elled to look another way: and when, after being cal...