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...hat it was no peasant’s hut, with its glazed windows and great mirrors and statues and lacqueys and brass door handles! Rather, it was the sort of pla... ...nies, and wide perspectives of streets, and a medley of steeples, columns, statues, and turrets—the whole framed in rattle and roar and the infinite w... ...d to overcome even more difficult problems than the foregoing, and by what colossal forces the levers of his far-flung tale are moved, and how eventua... ...ecies of compilation in which the man of the day so much delights. Yet the colossal undertaking had progressed but little beyond the sphere of project...

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...you may imagine how such a changeling as little La Baudraye must hate that colossal Milaud.” There was at Nevers a plebeian branch of the Milauds, whi... ...ture was content with a clear sketch and the simple outline of all antique statues. It did not dance over its periods.’—I should think not! It had no ...

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...n their flashing track. Anon with gathering stature to the height Of those colossal giants, doomed long since T o torturous grief and penance, that as... ...ance, with dignity of body. Base! But I was taken by that air of cold And statuesque sedateness, when she said ‘I’m going’; lit a taper, bowed her he... ... our spacious ken T rebled sublime Olympus round In towering amphitheatre. Colossal on enormous mound, Majestic gods we saw confer. They wafted the Dr... ...louds, waves, forests, inverted the race: Lo, in the day’s young beams the colossal invading pursuers Burst upon rocks and were foam; Ridged up a torr... ... beside His brilliancy who neighboured: vapour they; Vapour what postured statues barred his tread. On high in amphitheatre field on field, Italian, ...

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... Whose sightless speed divides this sullen night: _610 And thou, colossal Skeleton, that, still Guiding its irresistible career In thy devas... ...ed, I was so calm and joyous.—I could see The platform where we stood, the statues three Which kept their marble watch on that high shrine, _2... ... Of mountains, and on such bright floor did stand Columns, and shapes like statues, and the state _2945 Of kingless thrones, which Earth did i... ...Unseen, uninterrupted; books are there, Pictures, and casts from all those statues fair _555 Which were twin-born with poetry, an... ... human; see, they lie, Their monstrous works, and uncouth skeletons, Their statues, homes and fanes; prodigious shapes _300 Huddled in gray anni... ...ek! _465 Follow where all is fled!—Rome’s azure sky, Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words, are weak The glory they transfuse with fitting truth...

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...he iron roof—it is pitch dark too—the lamp lit at 5!)It was a blessed thing when I struck my own road; and I got home, neat for lunch time, one of the... ...of scenes, so that the figures remain in the mind’s eye for ever. OCTOBER 8TH. Suppose you sent us some of the catalogues of the parties what vends st...

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...othes plastered by the wind to the shape of their bodies re- sembled naked statues. On their pedestal of earth they looked unfamiliar and noble, but i... ...ught there might be giant gods hewn out of stone in the mountain-side; and colossal figures standing by themselves in the middle of vast green pasture... ...elightful man, I’ve no doubt, but he cared only for race- horses and Greek statues. Tell them about the bath, Alice.” “In the stable-yard,” said Mrs. ...

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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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... to that of the prince, every maneuver of her august husband. Raoul, impassible, and a little disengaged by the atten- tion of his hosts, looked from ... ...n. “Friday, noble and warlike pleasures. We hunt, we fence, we dress falcons and break horses. Then, Saturday is the day for intellectual pleasures: w... ... inscription. “Y es,” said Monk. Then, as if still willing to leave the Frenchman one means of evasion, — “Do you not observe that this vault has alre... ... has already been bro- ken into,” continued he, “and that several statues have been knocked down?” “My lord, you have, without doubt, heard that the r... ...s respect of your Scots loves to confide to the statues of the dead the valuable objects they have possessed dur- ing their lives. Therefore, the sold... ...s going towards the sea,” said the servant. “V ery well!” said Aramis. In fact, D’Artagnan, dismissing all suspicion, hastened towards the ocean, cons...

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...sarrange them ever so slightly. On a chair stood a stack of photographs of statues and pictures, which it was his habit to exhibit, one by one, for th... ...litude and chill and silence of the gallery as to the actual beauty of the statues. One must suppose, at least, that her emo- tions were not purely es... ...lse to speak aloud, and rose and wandered about rather aimlessly among the statues until she found herself in another gallery devoted to engraved obel... ... to me that the risk of marrying a person you’re in love with is something colossal.” “I don’t believe a word of that, and what’s more you don’t, eith... ...g this point at least. He possessed a book of pho- tographs from the Greek statues; the head of a goddess, if the lower part were concealed, had often...

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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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...ction in my mind, which was, that Goddesses were always conceived by me as statues. They talked and they moved, it was true, but the touch of them was... ...indispensable to the prince be- sides the margravine. ‘Only no more bronze statues!’ I ad- jured him. He nodded. He had hired Count Fretzel’s cha- tea... ...of my grandfather, as a plain gentle- man of England, the heir of the most colossal wealth pos- sible in the country. ‘I dis-sociate you from me, Rich...

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...lled out spaces with dim sym- bols of scenes; he caught the gleam of white statues at the base of which, with his letters out, he could tilt back a st... ...a success. Moses, on the ceiling, brought down to the floor; overwhelming, colossal, but somehow portable.” 152 The Ambassadors “Certainly, if you me...

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...publics. As there is no common centre to the country, vast capital cities, colossal wealth, abject poverty, and sudden revolutions are alike unknown; ... ...emocratic countries, a vast num- ber of insignificant ones. In the former, statues are raised of bronze; in the latter, they are modelled in plaster. ...

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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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...l Ber- nard was all but ruined. Some great capitalist in every age makes a colossal fortune, and leaves behind him neither for- tune nor a family; the... ...fine?” exclaimed Bixiou, turning to Blondet. “He will ask us next to erect statues to him as a benefactor of the species.” “It would lead people to co...

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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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...ture in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to keep their monstrous bodies ... ... recumbent figure of Michael Angelo’s than about the most excited of Greek statues. The very marble seems to wrinkle with a wild energy that we never ... ...here are crowds of people whose faces you cannot see, and here and there a colossal white statue at the corner of an alley that gives the place a nice... ...l of summer lightning blinking overhead, and the black av- enues and white statues leapt out every minute into short- lived distinctness. I get up to ... ...ned in white, wet vapour off the sea. Everything drips and soaks. The very statues seem wet to the skin. I cannot pretend to be very cheerful; I did n... ... Highlands.’ I am no good to-day. I cannot work, nor even write letters. A colossal breakfast yesterday at Puy has, I think, done for me for ever; I c...

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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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...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...

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...ested to her. She made a little sketch of Arthur, abnormally lanky, with a colossal nose, with the wings and the bow and arrow of the God of Love, but... ...wn fat, but in those days was extremely handsome. He reminded one of those colossal statues of Apollo in which the god is represented with a feminine ... ...ut in those days was extremely handsome. He reminded one of those colossal statues of Apollo in which the god is represented with a feminine roundness... ...garet a new and troubling charm. There had ever been something cold in her statuesque beauty , but this touch some 104 TheMagician how curiously emp...

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...st. The pictures seemed to light up, the Virgin’s heads smiled on him, the statues seemed alive. Everything danced and swayed around him, with a motio... ...te a jaded fancy, but a young man would have feared her. She was like some colossal statue fallen from the height of a Greek temple, so grand when see... ...hought of Infinity dwells in these precipices, per- haps they contain some colossal flattery for the soul of man; 137 Balzac for is he not, then, who... ...nite.” “If this skin is expanded,” said Raphael, “I promise you to erect a colossal statue to Blaise Pascal; to found a prize of a hundred thousand fr...

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...e all, Flirtations, their rise, progress, decline and fall. There are Snow-statues raised by the poor in hard winter to a Queen who has given them fue... ...eathed their swords; lifted their caps by way of salute, and sat like mere statues of dragoons,— except indeed that a drop of liquor being brought the... ... a ‘Temple of Con- cord:’ on the outer summit rises ‘a Statue of Liberty,’ colossal, seen for miles, with her Pike and Phrygian Cap, and civic col- um... ...ut National Patrols easily delivered him. Likewise all King’s effigies and statues, at least stucco ones, get abolished. Even King’s names; the word R... ...omwell!—What boots it? King Louis himself looked coldly on the enterprize: colossal Hero of two Worlds, having weighed himself in the balance, finds t... ...en vanquished; and will have both the scath to bear and the scorn. How the Statues of 358 The French Revolution Kings do now all fall! Bronze Henri h... ...ther- land wave at the Hotel-de-Ville; on the Pont Neuf—over the prostrate Statues of Kings. There is universal enlisting, urging to enlist; there is ... ...error of feminine hatred the poor seagreen Formula looked at the monstrous colossal Reality, and grew greener to behold him;—the Reality, again, strug...

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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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... been single in maintain- ing the general equities of Europe by war upon a colossal scale, and by our councils in the general congresses of Christendo... ...r natural protector being absent by three months’ march— simply the golden statues of the mighty Caesars, half rising on their thrones, must have caus... ...m nations being al- ready in a Strulbrug state, and held erect only by the colossal support of Christian powers, could not, as a reversionary evil, ha...

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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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...onceive one, possessing a figure more matchless in its pro- portions, more statuesque, and more deliberately and advis- edly to be characterized by no... ...or their sense of his perfidious character by their suspicions. Here was a colossal outline of wickedness; and by one in his situation, feeble (as it ... ... o’er land and ocean without rest.’ Others, on the contrary, motionless as statues, that share not in the agitations of their times, that tremble not ... ... this question in times past, I came to the conclusion—that, perhaps, this colossal project of a war against war, had been first put in motion under a...

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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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...hat a matrimonial union is on the tapis between a gentleman who has made a colossal fortune in the Railway World, and the only daughter of a noble ear... ...rse and shall be melted—the iron ones into railroads; the bronze ones into statues of beautiful saints, angels, and wise men; the copper ones into mon...

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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...