A Popular Handbook to the Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British MuseumMacmillan, 1903 - 794 Seiten |
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... horses , for which the holes in the marble remain ; isolation , secondly , from the architectural group of which , with most careful estimate of distance and point of obser- vation , that frieze , for instance , was designed to be a ...
... horses , for which the holes in the marble remain ; isolation , secondly , from the architectural group of which , with most careful estimate of distance and point of obser- vation , that frieze , for instance , was designed to be a ...
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... horse , and his drapery is well com- posed . The horse is treated in a conventional manner ; the hind - quarters seem too small , and are feebly restored ; the head has an exaggerated vivacity " ( Newton's Guide to the Græco - Roman ...
... horse , and his drapery is well com- posed . The horse is treated in a conventional manner ; the hind - quarters seem too small , and are feebly restored ; the head has an exaggerated vivacity " ( Newton's Guide to the Græco - Roman ...
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... horses and of their types indicate that this relief is derived from some Greek original of the best period . The horses are small and compact , like those on the Parthenon frieze . Erato . A statuette of Erato ( the lovely ) , the muse ...
... horses and of their types indicate that this relief is derived from some Greek original of the best period . The horses are small and compact , like those on the Parthenon frieze . Erato . A statuette of Erato ( the lovely ) , the muse ...
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... horse - shoe , serving a double use , either for water to be poured upon the person sitting in it , or to receive steam or vapour from beneath . It is curious that a precise description of this kind of chair , with an explanation of the ...
... horse - shoe , serving a double use , either for water to be poured upon the person sitting in it , or to receive steam or vapour from beneath . It is curious that a precise description of this kind of chair , with an explanation of the ...
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... horses snorting and plunging , water - snakes uprearing their crests and gliding along in slimy folds , dolphins ... horse and fish , snake and fish , -evidently referring to a two - CHAP . VI THE GRECO - ROMAN BASEMENT 75 Etruscan Tombs 75,
... horses snorting and plunging , water - snakes uprearing their crests and gliding along in slimy folds , dolphins ... horse and fish , snake and fish , -evidently referring to a two - CHAP . VI THE GRECO - ROMAN BASEMENT 75 Etruscan Tombs 75,
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Seite 124 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus. but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Seite 608 - The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond : it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars ; whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
Seite 371 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm...
Seite 197 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
Seite 191 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Seite 6 - But be his My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole ; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
Seite 6 - THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit ? ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy...
Seite 143 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Seite 99 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Seite 143 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.