The Artist, Volume 1William Reeves, 1880 |
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Page 281 - Outside the entrance of the single village street, on an exposed rise of ground, the hereditary potter sits by his wheel moulding the swift revolving clay by the natural curves of his hands.
Page 281 - ... going and returning in single file, the scene glows like Titian's canvas, and moves like the stately procession of the Panathenaic frieze. Later the men drive in the mild grey kine from the moaning plain, the looms are folded up, the coppersmiths are silent, the elders gather in the...
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Page 281 - ... exposed rise of ground, the hereditary potter sits by his wheel moulding the swift revolving clay by the natural curves of his hands. At the back of the houses, which form the low irregular street, there are two or three looms at work in blue and scarlet and gold, the frames...
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Page 208 - Phidias' and John Bellini's ; the economy, Xenophon's ; the geology, Saussure's ; and I quitted the University, not at all because my health had failed, but because I saw that I could be of no more real use there practically : I was looked upon as a lively musical-box instead of a man who knew his science and his business; and...
Page 281 - At half-past three or four in the afternoon the whole street is lighted up by the moving robes of the women going down to draw water from the tank ; each with two or three...