 The mouth, with its full yet delicate lips, seems so nearly to smile outright, that it calls forth a responsive smile. The whole statue - unlike anything else that ever was wrought in that severe material of marble - conveys the idea of an amiable and...  The North British Review - Page 1841860Full view - About this book
 | 1860 - 1172 pages
...statue — unlike anything else that was ever wrought in the severe material of marble — conveys the idea of an amiable and sensual creature, easy,...jollity, yet not incapable of being touched by pathos." Vol. I, pp. 19, 20. Again, " Praxitiles has subtly diffused throughout his work that mute mystery which... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1174 pages
...unlike anything else that was ever wrought in the severe material of marble — conveys the idea of ar. amiable and sensual creature, easy, mirthful, apt...jollity, yet not incapable of being touched by pathos." Vol. I, pp. 19, 20. Again, " Praxitiles has subtly diffused throughout his work that mute mystery which... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 320 pages
...statue — unlike anything else that ever was wrought in that severe material of marble — conveys the idea of an amiable and sensual creature, easy,...with actual life. It comes very close to some of our pleasantest sympathies. Perhaps it is the very lack of moral severity, of any high and heroic ingredient... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 pages
...statue — unlike any thing else that ever was wrought in that severe material of marble — conveys the idea of an amiable and sensual creature, easy,...kindly sentiment towards it, as if its substance were wann to the touch, and imbued with actual life. It comes very close to some of our pleasantest sympathies.... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1176 pages
...whole statue — unlike anything else that was ever wrought in the KTcre material of marble— conveys the idea of an amiable and sensual creature, easy,...jollity, yet not incapable of being touched by pathos." Vol. I, pp. 19, 20. Again, " Praiitiles has subtly diffused throughout his work that inute mystery... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 pages
...statue — unlike anything else that ever was -wrought in that severe material of marble — conveys the idea of an amiable and sensual creature, easy,...with actual life. It comes very close to some of our pleasantest sympathies. Perhaps it is the very lack of moral severity, of any high and heroic ingredient... | |
 | 1875 - 448 pages
...statue — unlike anything else that ever was wrought in that severe material of marble — conveys the idea of an amiable and sensual creature, easy,...with actual life. It comes very close to some of our pleasantest sympathies. Perhaps it is the very lack of moral severity, of any high and heroic ingredient... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1875 - 504 pages
...calls forth a responsive smile. The whole statue—unlike anything else that ever was wrought Sn the severe material of marble—conveys the idea of an...touch, and imbued with actual life. It comes very near to some of our pleasantest sympathies."-—Hawthorne. " Praxitele avait dit a Phryne de choisir... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 418 pages
...whole statue, unlike anything else that was ever wrought in that severe material of marble, conveys the idea of an amiable and sensual creature, easy,...were warm to the touch, and imbued with actual life. — Hawthorne. PLINY, Epist. iii. 6. WILD AND MELANCHOLY CHARACTER OF SOUTH ITALIAN SCENERY. WE are... | |
 | John Rhodes (Wesleyan Minister.) - 1876 - 236 pages
...reference was made in the record of yesterday) and the Pawn of Praxiteles, of which it has been said that " it is impossible to gaze long at this stone image...were warm to the touch, and imbued with actual life." In the largo saloon, the central figure is the bronze wolf of the Capitol, a most interesting relic,... | |
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