A Popular Handbook to the Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British MuseumMacmillan, 1903 - 794 Seiten |
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... warrior , in Phrygian cap and short tunic and mantle thrown back by the wind . Every one has seen him kneel in marble on the back of a bull and bury his poniard in its throat ; we shall see another example in a later room ( p . 65 ) ...
... warrior , in Phrygian cap and short tunic and mantle thrown back by the wind . Every one has seen him kneel in marble on the back of a bull and bury his poniard in its throat ; we shall see another example in a later room ( p . 65 ) ...
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... warriors are curiously destitute of life and in- dividuality , as compared with the limbs and bodies " ( J.H.S. vii . 193 ) . To this statement of particular characteristics a few general remarks on the spirit of Greek art , manifest ...
... warriors are curiously destitute of life and in- dividuality , as compared with the limbs and bodies " ( J.H.S. vii . 193 ) . To this statement of particular characteristics a few general remarks on the spirit of Greek art , manifest ...
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... warrior is laying aside his arms , handing his helmet to the seated judge of the dead , under whose throne sulks a bear , while on either side flies a Harpy on her fatal occupation . On the south side are again these Harpies . A woman ...
... warrior is laying aside his arms , handing his helmet to the seated judge of the dead , under whose throne sulks a bear , while on either side flies a Harpy on her fatal occupation . On the south side are again these Harpies . A woman ...
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... warrior ; the east pediment represents the earlier struggle , the west the latter . The figure of the goddess 1 The transaction caused as many suspicions and insinuations as if it had been a case of a Chinese concession . The real facts ...
... warrior ; the east pediment represents the earlier struggle , the west the latter . The figure of the goddess 1 The transaction caused as many suspicions and insinuations as if it had been a case of a Chinese concession . The real facts ...
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... warrior , perhaps Telamon ; then , a fallen warrior ; Athena ; the figure of a youth leaning forward to draw away his fallen comrade ; and at the end Hercules , drawing his bow , with a lion's skin on his head . With regard to the style ...
... warrior , perhaps Telamon ; then , a fallen warrior ; Athena ; the figure of a youth leaning forward to draw away his fallen comrade ; and at the end Hercules , drawing his bow , with a lion's skin on his head . With regard to the style ...
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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.