Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 13
... sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expression , " a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though ...
... sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expression , " a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though ...
Page 14
... whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the the books of all ages . 14 ESSAY 1 .
... whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the the books of all ages . 14 ESSAY 1 .
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... sculpture , or of pictures , ad- dresses . - Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us , nothing that does ...
... sculpture , or of pictures , ad- dresses . - Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us , nothing that does ...
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... sculpture is all melted away , as if it had been statues of ice ; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining , as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts , in June and July . For the genius ...
... sculpture is all melted away , as if it had been statues of ice ; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining , as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts , in June and July . For the genius ...
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... sculpture is all melted away , as if it had been statues of ice ; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining , as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts , in June and July . For the genius ...
... sculpture is all melted away , as if it had been statues of ice ; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining , as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts , in June and July . For the genius ...
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