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...ver truly given ourselves to another, without running the risk of living a colossal lie. The quality of this relationship will determine the quality... ... have archeaological remains, which include thousands and thousands votive statues left in the various sanctuaries by women who were thanking the go... ...n stay buried under the sea for millennia, as happened to the bronze Riace statues, but when it re-emerges, its overwhelming beauty is just as power...

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...od to the remotest regions of the earth. They have not erected to themselves colossal statues upon pedes tals of human bones, to provoke and insult t... ... remotest regions of the earth. They have not erected to themselves colossal statues upon pedes tals of human bones, to provoke and insult the tardy ...

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...rally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian ar- chitecture to the colossal form which it assumed. In these caverns, already prepared by natur... ...with the simplicity and grace of children. They made vases, tragedies, and statues, such as healthy senses should,—that is, in good taste. Such things... ...gs, who have so magnetized the eyes of nations. It has been taught by this colossal symbol the mutual reverence that is due from man to man. The joyfu... ...re is at this moment for you an utter- ance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses... ...o in the scarcely less fluid events of the world every man sees himself in colossal, without knowing that it is himself. The good, compared to the evi... ... will disappear. The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining, as ... ...in the announcement of every truth! In common hours, society sits cold and statuesque. We all stand waiting, empty,—knowing, possibly, that we can be ... ...ls to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god and converts the statues into fiery men, and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which s... ... 208 Essays Dante’s praise is that he dared to write his autobiography in colossal cipher, or into universality. We have yet had no genius in America...

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...ngs. Others were ostentatiously daubed with vermilion, and resembled coral statues. They stretched themselves on the cushions, they ate squat- ting ro... ...ouching among the bamboos. On the other side of the tables was a Libyan of colossal stature, and with short black curly hair. He had retained only his... ...of the squares, every- where, divinities with hideous heads might be seen, colossal or squat, with enormous bellies, or immoderately flattened, openin... ...en all these crucified corpses were left upright, looking like so many red statues on the tombs, and the excitement even spread to the people of Malqu... ... the tongs, the rakes for the ashes of the altar, and all the robes of the statues down to the bronze bodkin that served to curl the hair of an old T ... ...re travelling behind Moloch!” Matho leaped up; his heart was swelling with colossal pride; he was raised to the stature of a god. With quivering nostr... ...r their relatives and friends who had died far away during the war. W axen statues with clothes and hair were displayed across the gates. They melted ... ...sal, extravagant, frantic; the holes of the ruins had been stopped up, the statues of the gods had been re- painted, the streets were strewn with myrt...

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...ice is softened by the conviction that he is, scientifically considered, a colossal humbug: the fact being that, though he knows just as much (and jus... ...ure. SIR PATRICK. Colly: when you live in an age that runs to pictures and statues and plays and brass bands because its men and women are not good en...

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... hill after them, loaded with a sack of potatoes, a hamper, a fat goose, a colossal salmon, and several paper parcels. Cornelius leads the way up the ... ...peries, with a wreath in her hand, stands neglected amid the laurels. Such statues, though apparently works of art, grow naturally in Irish gardens. T...

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... olive-trees, blue sky, frescoes, country inns, saints, peasants, mosaics, statues, beggars. He came back with the air of a prophet who would either r... ...out Philip as soon as she had departed. “Never in my life have I seen such colossal impertinence. She ought to be well smacked, and sent back to Sunda...

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...special use in itself, but formed merely the interval be- tween two of the colossal supports of the roof of the cata- combs, and was backed by one of ... ...ns that look down upon all, — I love to regard these as themselves but the colossal members of one vast animate and sentient whole—a whole whose form ... ...of so singular a welcome—“I see you are aston- ished at my apartment—at my statues—my pictures—my origi- nality of conception in architecture and upho...

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...h they usu- ally hover on such occasions, and set them upon the earth. The statues of Sophocles and Aristophanes, around whom all the modern dramatic ... ...how to set forth his merits sufficiently. “For,” he said, “although single statues and larger groups of sculpture remain the foundation and the summit... ... parts appear more or less indistinct and at last disappear, we see only a colossal wall, the height of which bears an advanta- geous proportion to th...

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...me Bovary corner. The shovel, tongs, and the nozzle of the bellows, all of colossal size, shone like polished steel, while along the walls hung many p... ...spray refreshed heaps of fruit arranged like a pyramid at the foot of pale statues that smiled beneath playing waters. And then, one night they came t... ... “Hirondelle” glided between the gardens, where through an opening one saw statues, a periwinkle plant, clipped yews, and a swing. Then on a sudden th...

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...rty to talk of the sacredness and beauty of the Commonwealth and gaze at the statues of the elder Brutus and of the Curtii and Decii, and the people a... ..., level mountains to the plains. Oceans and land and sky are avenues for our colossal commerce. Disease diminishes and life lengthens. Yet the promise...

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... mother, his friends, his easel and mural paintings, his dissections, his colossal bronze horse. He tells of his attempts at flying, his invention... ...ng land, the swift Adda, those canals, the villa gardens with their Roman statues and roses...roses...the women in the gardens, picking roses. But I... ...and pounding waves. Let’s walk in the castle garden, among the senatorial statues; I played the lute and both of us sang. And Rustici’s! What about ... ...es and pansies along the paths, tulips and agnus-castus, roses around our statues and ramblers on the arbors. Only the biggest roses are in full flo...

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...oung Metzengerstein 29 V olume Four seemed rivetted to the saddle of that colossal horse, whose intractable audacities so well accorded with his own ... ...V olume Four of smoke settled heavily over the battlements in the distinct colossal figure of—a horse. THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER ... ...ners of the room were rounded into niches. Three of these were filled with statues of gigantic proportions. Their beauty was Grecian, their deformity ... ...out ensemble French. In the fourth niche the statue was veiled; it was not colossal. But then there was a taper ankle, a sandalled foot. De L ’Omelett... ...ectual resistance, I suffered myself to be placed between two gentlemen of colossal di- mensions; while a third, of a size larger, requesting pardon f... ...hauteur—of a commendable sense, in short, of what is due to the dignity of colossal proportion. The kind friend who presented me to General Smith whis...

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...lic careers undone by a single indiscretion. A man had better have all the statues in Lon- don to supper with him, ugly as they are, than be brought t... ... Hence it is that the world’s books get written, its pictures painted, its statues modelled, its symphonies composed, by people who are free of the ot... ...sured by the British theatre as you know it to-day, can either handle this colossal task themselves, or 18 GB Shaw understand and support the sort of... ...all our epochs is but the mo- ment between the toss and the catch, has the colossal mecha- nism no purpose? THE DEVIL. None, my friend. Y ou think, be... ...ely] All the same, the Su- perman is a fine conception. There is something statuesque about it. [He places himself on the grave trap beside The Devil....

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... all. To us the ridiculous bombard- ments of Scarborough and Ramsgate were colossal tragedies, and the battle of Jutland a mere ballad. The words “aft... ...en mobs and even regular troops under express command had mutilated church statues, smashed church windows, wrecked church organs, and torn up the she... ...sheets from which the church music was read and sung. When they saw broken statues in churches, they were told that this was the work of wicked, godle... ...ssed anyhow in a rich robe of black pile that shows off her white skin and statuesque contour. MRS HUSHABYE. Ellie, my darling, my pettikins [kissing ...

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...alls being completely covered with fresco paintings and bas-reliefs, while statues, vases, and Mosaic work of rich patterns, indicated the vast wealth... ...from the Nile, was through an avenue two miles long, composed of sphynxes, statues, and obelisks, twenty, sixty, and a hundred feet in height. The pal... ...ese stones—alas! these gray stones—are they all— All of the famed, and the colossal left By the corrosive Hours to Fate and me? “Not all”—the Echoes a... ...ble dwelling peeréd out Seem’d earthly in the shadow of his niche— Achaian statues in a world so rich? Friezes from Tadmor and Persepolis—* From Balbe...