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" But he paints with a brush so untamed and profuse, They seem nothing but bundles of muscles and thews; E. is rather like Flaxman, lines strait and severe, And a colorless outline, but full, round, and clear; — To the men he thinks worthy he frankly... "
Alph Waldo Emerson - Page 114
by Alexander Ireland - 1882
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1850 - 806 pages
...he paints with a brush so untamed and profuse, They seem bundles of nothing but muscles and thews ; E. is rather like Flaxman, lines straight and severe,...get at the centre, and then Take a reckoning from thence of his actions and men ; E. calmly assumes the said centre as granted, And, given himself, has...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 19

1848 - 634 pages
...bundles of muscles and thews ; E. is rather like Flaxman, lines strait and severe, And a colorless outline, but full, round, and clear ; — To the men...accords The design of a white marble statue in words. C. labors to get at the centre, and then Take a reckoning from there of his actions attd men ; E. calmly...
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The Living Age, Volume 19

1848 - 640 pages
...bundles of muscles and thews ; E. is rather like Flaxman, lines strait and severe, And a colorless outline) but full, round, and clear ; — To the men...accords The design of a white marble statue in words. C. labors to get at the centre, and then Take a reckoning from there of his actions and men ; E. calmly...
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The Eclectic Review

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 910 pages
...he paints with a brush so untamed and profuse. They seem bundles of nothing but muscles and thews ; E. is rather like Flaxman, lines straight and severe....get at the centre, and then Take a reckoning from thence of his actions and men ; E. calmly assumes the said centre as granted. And, given himself, has...
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The poetical works of James R. Lowell, Volume 2

James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 pages
...but bundles of muscles and thews; E. is rather like Flaxman, lines strait and severe, And a colorless outline, but full, round, and clear;— To the men...accords The design of a white marble statue in words. C. labors to get at the centre, and then Take a reckoning from there of his actions and men ; E. calmly...
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes, Volume 2

James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 330 pages
...bundles of muscles and illy;, thews ; E. is rather like Flaxman, lines strait and severe, And a colorless outline, but full, round, and clear;—- To the men...accords The design of a white marble statue in words. C. labors to get at the centre, and then Take a reckoning from there of his actions and men ; E. calmly...
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Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.)

Blanchard Jerrold - 1863 - 338 pages
...heart and open purse, by a single lady. In the " Fable for Critics," the poet sings of Emerson : — " To the men he thinks worthy he frankly accords The design of a white marble statue in words." I leave it to him who hath the gift to record that holy, unregarded work which Miss Portal has been...
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...

James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 322 pages
...bundles of muscles and fllj;, thews ; E. is rather like Flaxman, lines strait and severe, And a colorless outline, but full, round, and clear ;— To the men...accords The design of a white marble statue in words. C. labors to get at the centre, and then Take a reckoning from there of his actions and men ; E. calmly...
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The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, Issue 514

James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 488 pages
...bundles of muscles and thews ; E. is rather like Flaxman, lines strait and severe, And a colorless outline, but full, round, and clear ; — To the men...accords The design of a white marble statue in words. C. labors to get at the centre, and then Take a reckoning from there of his actions and men ; E. calmly...
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The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pages
...bundles of muscles and thews ; E. is rather like Flaxman, lines strait and severe, And a colorless outline, but full, round, and clear ; — To the men...accords The design of a white marble statue in words. C. labors to get at the centre, and then Take a reckoning from there of his actions and men ; E. calmly...
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