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...ed in vain to make me believe! the jealousy of engravings, of pictures, of statues, wherein artists exaggerate human beauty, as a result of the doctri... ...which yielded an income of six to eight thousand francs, then considered a colossal fortune for an attorney in the provinces. Old Maitre Sarrasine, ha... ...t. She was surprised, I think, that her colleague was able to triumph over statues. “Sarrasine started for Italy in 1758. On the journey his ardent im... ...onuments with which the fa- therland of the arts is strewn. He admired the statues, the frescoes, the pictures; and, fired with a spirit of emulation,...

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... man and a Frenchman.” He rose to his feet, and assumed an attitude which for sublimity has never been approached by man, and has sel- dom been surpas... ...ccomplished, on the spot. When I went back to Harris, I said: “Now you see what a person with talent and address can do.” “Excuse me, I see what a per... ...in the world, is wanting. The Lion lies in his lair in the perpendicular face of a low cliff—for he is carved from the living rock of the cliff. His s... ... one who has learned to live up there would ever want to live on a meaner level. We swept through the prettiest little curving arms of the lake, among... ...d, the giant form of the Jungfrau rose cold and white into the clear sky, beyond a gateway in the nearer highlands. It reminded me, somehow, of one of... ...ion—it was a long way down to it. We began our descent, now, by the most remarkable road I have ever seen. It wound it corkscrew curves down the face ... ...t as violently as if he had been running a race; and all the while he quaked from head to heel as with a palsy. He was a handsome fellow, and he made ... ...ast and beautiful Arcade or Gallery, or whatever it is called. Blocks of tall new buildings of the most sumptuous sort, rich with decoration and grace... ...revolting or indelicate. It makes a body ooze sarcasm at every pore, to go about Rome and Florence and see what this last generation has been doing wi...

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...hrough the chasm the flood did break With an earth-uplifting cataract: The statues gave a joyous scream, And on its wings the pale thin Dream Lifted t... ..., ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far awa... ...works of art was full enjoyment and wonder. He had not studied pictures or statues before; he now did so with the eye of taste, that referred not to t...

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...ngs, the frowning bastions and turrets, the huge stone gateway, with its gilded bars and its magnificent array of colossal granite lions, and other th... ... But they were waved aside with a right royal gesture, and they stopped stock still where they were, like so many statues. Edward took Tom to a rich a... ...t, with gilded pillars and pilasters, and pictured walls and ceilings. At the door stand tall guards, as rigid as statues, dressed in rich and picture...

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...uch juster grounds than to Silanio and Parrhasius, for making pictures and statues of Theseus. There being then a custom for the Grecian youth, upon t... ...an- deur; others, that Publicola was the first that rode in tri- umph. The statues of Romulus in triumph are, as may be seen in Rome, all on foot. Aft... ...t when I was at Rome, I heard many say, that, when the oracle directed two statues to be raised, one to the wisest, and another to the most valiant ma... ...eration. Other wonders of the like nature, drops of sweat seen to stand on statues, groans heard from them, the figures seen to turn round and to clos... ... longish and out of proportion. For which reason almost all the images and statues that were made of him have the head covered with a helmet, the work... ...us leave their angry gods to the Tarentines.” Nevertheless, he removed the colossal statue of Hercules, and had it set up in the capitol, with one of ...

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...nship. From the gable above depends a stone dais like those that crown the statues of saints at the portal of churches. Can you not see a woman walkin... ...dant hair descends in heavy masses beside the throat, like the coif of the statues at Memphis, and carries out magnificently the general severity of f... ...ng of the arms from the shoulders, superb in outline, seems to belong to a colossal woman. The arms are vigorously modelled, ending in wrists of Engli...

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...ntly taken furnished, rather common and ugly. But there were several negro statues, wood- 70 carvings from West Africa, strange and disturbing, the c... ... He felt as if he were seated in immemorial potency, like the great carven statues of real Egypt, as real and as fulfilled with subtle strength, as th... ... he replied. ‘The frieze is part of the whole archi- tecture. Yes, it is a colossal thing.’ Then he seemed to stiffen, shrugged his shoulders, and wen... ...t on: ‘Sculpture and architecture must go together. The day for irrelevant statues, as for wall pictures, is over. As a matter of fact sculpture is al...

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... instances of his lofty appreciations of the garden of Art and Nature, and statuesque walk through it, would have been more amusing if her friend coul... ...lish taste for red and white, and for cold outlines: he secretly admired a statuesque demeanour with a statue’s eyes. The national approbation of a re... ...livan Smith, ‘that some of the grand instructive figures were in their day colossal bores!’ ‘So you see the marvel of the poet’s craft at last?’ Diana... ...n of imperishable type, who are never for a twinkle the prey of the blood: statues created by man’s common desire to im- press upon the sex his posses...

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..., like those of the palace at Versailles, and the gateway is surmounted by colossal vases. The gold of the arabesques is ruddy, for rust has added its... ...umeau, and is bor- 206 Sons of the Soil dered by flower-beds adorned with statues, and flanked on either side by columns with niches, which terminate...

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...l barges lay indistinctly on the darkly shining mud and water below, and a colossal crane was per- petually hauling up coal into mysterious blacknesse... ...tings, steel engrav- 216 The New Machiavelli ings, busts, and full-length statues of the late Mr. Gladstone; and its spacious dining-rooms, its long,...

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..., possibly to chance. For more than a hundred years the ceiling, formed of colossal beams, bent beneath the weight of the upper stories, though it had... ...of house and office was not worth more than a thousand francs, including a colossal iron safe, built 21 Balzac into the wall, before which slept the ... ...ent, had the charm which the middle-ages bring into relief in the mystical statues placed beside the portals of their churches. Gravity of thought, wo... ...ngs. Our works are our children; our children are the pictures, books, and statues of our lives. Are we not artists in their earliest education? I say... ...ed like a 83 Balzac Florentine medal. These persons, stoically erect like statues, in their old darned clothes, were doubtless the grandfather and th... ... the terrace, where they found Madame Graslin and her mother motionless as statues. The old woman was wiping her eyes with a handkerchief, and her dau... ... now con- ceived a scheme of a nature to render Madame Graslin’s for- tune colossal,—she herself having by this time recovered pos- session of the inc...

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... to port many a cargo which crowned the edifice of fortunes already almost colossal, but he had also done a little sagacious trading on his own accoun... ...laughing. “He has found something in Blackstone that I never did. He makes statues then simply for his pleasure?” 15 Henry James Cecilia, with a smil... ...ome and study the antique. To go to Rome you need money. I ‘m fond of fine statues, but unfortunately I can’t make them myself. I have to order them. ... ...s; and the three at which he looked longest were finished busts. One was a colossal head of a negro, tossed back, defiant, with dis- tended nostrils; ... ...ves either in masterpiece or in proceeds. She can see no good in my making statues; they seem to her a snare of the enemy. She would fain see me all m... ...ey had been spending an hour in the mouldy little garden- house, where the colossal mask of the famous Juno looks out with blank eyes from that dusky ... ... the need for intellectual rest, for a truce to present care for churches, statues, and pictures, on even better grounds than his companion, inasmuch ... ...e gondola, and declared that the only thing worth living for was to make a colossal bronze and set it aloft in the light of a public square. In Rome h... ... his bed was a pallet in a loft, which he shared with a German botanist of colossal stature—every inch of him quaking at an open window. These had bee...

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... a matter of course, only be in- scribed with the Cogito ergo Sum. The two statues mark the two opposite poles to which the brilliant French mind has ... ..., so wide and gradual that a coach and four may be driven to the top. This colossal cylinder has to- day no visible use; but it corresponds, happily e... ...aeval tower, which is ornamented by Gothic windows and the empty niches of statues; a mea- gre but delicate hotel de ville, of the Renaissance, nest- ... ... one side by the theatre, a pompous build- ing, decorated with columns and statues of the muses. Nantes belongs to the class of towns which are always... ... of its commanding position. This hotel, “magnifique construction ornee de statues,” as the Guide-Joanne, usually so reticent, takes the trouble to an... ...cent, takes the trouble to announce, has an omnibus, and, I sup- pose, has statues, though I didn’t perceive them; but it has very little else save im... ...as one encounters only in the cities of France, the chief of these being a colossal figure by Pradier, rep- 136 A Little Tour in France resenting Nim... ...tone seats, in a semi- circle, in the slope of the lull, and planted their colossal wall opposite to it. This wall, from the inside, is, if pos- sible... ...t, roofed with the old beams and cornices, it contains, filling one end, a colossal Gothic chimney-piece, with a fireplace large enough to roast, not ...

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...wears diamond ear-rings; and the drawing-rooms are deco- rated with marble statues. I should indeed be sorry to let you know how I have allowed myself... ...the other hand, no beggars and no cocottes—none, at least, that you see. A colossal mediocrity, except (my brother- in-law tells me) in the machinery,...

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...o the eyes of all persons in the imperial palaces, by pictures, busts, and statues; for we find the same description of his personal ap- pearance thre... ...s it may be said, that they were equally patri- otic in their purpose, and colossal in their proportions. As an orator, Cæsar’s merit was so eminent, ... ...nds of chaotic composition—light conflicting with darkness, proportions of colossal grandeur disfigured by un- symmetrical arrangement, the angelic in... ... fitted to sustain a Roman popularity; for, in addition to his extreme and statuesque beauty of person, he was (in the report of one who did not wish ... ...lled the world with images of his perfect fawn-like beauty in the shape of colossal statues, and raised temples even to his memory in various cities. ... ...world with images of his perfect fawn-like beauty in the shape of colossal statues, and raised temples even to his memory in various cities. This Cæsa... ...ch, which silently and steadily through seven centuries ascended under the colossal architecture of the children of Romulus, to watch the unweaving of... ... million of spectators sat round them: standing in the centre was a single statuesque figure—the imperial sagittary, beautiful as an Antinous, and maj...

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...bows of canoes had var- iegated sarongs and gleaming shoulders like bronze statues; the muttered strophes of the paddlers’ song ended periodically in ... ... beam; his fair beard spread out magnifi- cently over his chest; he looked colossal, ineffectual, and mild. There was something lugubrious in the aspe... ... and for a minute they stood round that balance as mute and still as three statues. Suddenly Carlier said: “Catch hold of the other end, Makola—you be... ... lights went out. The girl ascended facing him. Behind her the shadow of a colossal woman danced lightly on the wall. He held his breath while she pas...

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...ajor Monarch’s trousers. They were the real thing, even if he did come out colossal. It was amusing to do his wife’s back hair— it was so mathematical... ...nxious to see exactly what he meant. The two figures in the picture looked colossal, but I supposed this was not what he meant, inasmuch as, for aught... ... mirrored. He had hitherto in life known nothing that was old except a few statues and pictures; but here everything was old, was immemorial, and noth...

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...he four corners of this apartment, which was oblong, were four magnificent statues, The Count of Monte Cristo 270 having baskets in their hands. Thes... ...i brought on the dessert, or rather took the baskets from the hands of the statues and placed them on the table. Between the two baskets he placed a s... ...ic lantern before it is extin- guished, and he was again in the chamber of statues, lighted only by one of those pale and antique lamps which watch in... ...ch in the dead of the night over the sleep of pleasure. They were the same statues, rich in form, in attraction. and poesy, with eyes of fascination, ... ...seemed to veil its virgin brow before these marble wantons. Then the three statues advanced towards him with looks of love, and approached the couch o... ...cient ruin, so that no preliminary impres- sion interfered to mitigate the colossal proportions of the gigantic building they came to admire. The road... ...but that, with his eccentric char- acter, his characteristic face, and his colossal fortune, he would pro- duce a great effect there. And yet he did n...

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... in his face, though perhaps more talked of than really appar- ent, to the statues of king Alexander. And because many ap- plied that name to him in h... ...tellus, when he adorned the temple of Castor and Pollux with paintings and statues, among the rest dedicated hers for her singular beauty. In his cond... ...mpanied with three such successes, could not fail of being invincible. The statues that gave the best representation of Alexander’s person, were those... ..., of whom nine were foot-soldiers; and in memory of them he caused so many statues of brass, of Lysippus’s making, to be erected. And that the Grecian... ...ter of Greece, as he was walking up and down at Delphi, and looking at the statues, at the sight of that of Alexander he was suddenly struck with alar... ...lso brought down, from amongst many oth- ers which were not disturbed, the colossal statues of Eumenes and Attalus, which were inscribed with Antony’s...

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...hich is crammed with bits of colored marble and gilding, and Gog-and-Magog colossal statues of saints (looking prodigiously small), and mosaics from t... ...rammed with bits of colored marble and gilding, and Gog-and-Magog colossal statues of saints (looking prodigiously small), and mosaics from the worst ... ... thinking about men’s lives and hearts, and who knew best how to make fine statues and buildings, and to write wise books. By Books also we may learn ... ...with animated copiousness about all manner of picture-galleries, pictures, statues and ob- jects of Art at Rome, and on the road to Rome and from it, ... ...d for the best existing Book (a German one published ten years ago) on the Statues in that very Collection; and, after a rabble of clerks and custodes...