A Popular Handbook to the Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British MuseumMacmillan, 1903 - 794 Seiten |
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... round the neck are branches of ivy . The handles terminate on the shoulder in swans ' heads . Thalia . — A statue of the pastoral muse , in a contemplative but commanding attitude . She holds the pedum or pastoral This staff in her ...
... round the neck are branches of ivy . The handles terminate on the shoulder in swans ' heads . Thalia . — A statue of the pastoral muse , in a contemplative but commanding attitude . She holds the pedum or pastoral This staff in her ...
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... round beauty of his youth to the more haggard look of his latest years ? Are there any modern portraits more familiar than the severe , wedge - like head of Augustus , with his sharp - cut lips and nose , or the dull phiz of Hadrian ...
... round beauty of his youth to the more haggard look of his latest years ? Are there any modern portraits more familiar than the severe , wedge - like head of Augustus , with his sharp - cut lips and nose , or the dull phiz of Hadrian ...
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... round his mouth . It must be the likeness of one who has been sovereign in some sphere of life , and has ruled over the spirit of his age " ( The Emperor Hadrian , translated by Mary E. Robinson , p . 186 ) . Antinous . A fine specimen ...
... round his mouth . It must be the likeness of one who has been sovereign in some sphere of life , and has ruled over the spirit of his age " ( The Emperor Hadrian , translated by Mary E. Robinson , p . 186 ) . Antinous . A fine specimen ...
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... round the trunk of the tree is upturned as if he were listening to the music of the god . The countenance of Apollo has a suave and beautiful expression , and the general attitude is very harmoniously composed " ( Smith and Porcher ...
... round the trunk of the tree is upturned as if he were listening to the music of the god . The countenance of Apollo has a suave and beautiful expression , and the general attitude is very harmoniously composed " ( Smith and Porcher ...
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... round towards the hand that holds the quoit , half crouching on one leg , and looking ready to spring up as he makes his cast . " The marble copies agree with this description , except that the head is here looking forward instead of ...
... round towards the hand that holds the quoit , half crouching on one leg , and looking ready to spring up as he makes his cast . " The marble copies agree with this description , except that the head is here looking forward instead of ...
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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.