Excursions in Art and LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 - 295 Seiten |
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... clay to his power . It was not until Michel Angelo was sixty years of age that , on the death of Antonio San Gallo , he was appointed to succeed him as architect , and to design and carry out the building of St. Peter's , then only ...
... clay to his power . It was not until Michel Angelo was sixty years of age that , on the death of Antonio San Gallo , he was appointed to succeed him as architect , and to design and carry out the building of St. Peter's , then only ...
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... clay , had become hide- ous and noisome . Of many of the ducal family nothing remained but fragments of bones and a handful of dust . But where the hand of the rob- ber had not been , the splendid dresses covered with jewels , the silks ...
... clay , had become hide- ous and noisome . Of many of the ducal family nothing remained but fragments of bones and a handful of dust . But where the hand of the rob- ber had not been , the splendid dresses covered with jewels , the silks ...
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... clay or terra cotta , with little elaboration or finish . But if we add the 92 metopes and the 524 feet of figures in re- lief , the mere designing in clay of all the figures and groups becomes impossible . But this is not enough : we ...
... clay or terra cotta , with little elaboration or finish . But if we add the 92 metopes and the 524 feet of figures in re- lief , the mere designing in clay of all the figures and groups becomes impossible . But this is not enough : we ...
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... clay model ; and when this is completed and cast in such a permanent material as plaster , the workman has an absolute model , which he may , to a certain extent , copy with almost mathematical accuracy . The greater portion of the work ...
... clay model ; and when this is completed and cast in such a permanent material as plaster , the workman has an absolute model , which he may , to a certain extent , copy with almost mathematical accuracy . The greater portion of the work ...
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... clay , but in the final material of his statue - whether gold , ivory , or bronze . Assist- ants of course he had , and undoubtedly they were very numerous . Plutarch tells us that the public works gave employment to carpenters ...
... clay , but in the final material of his statue - whether gold , ivory , or bronze . Assist- ants of course he had , and undoubtedly they were very numerous . Plutarch tells us that the public works gave employment to carpenters ...
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Seite 235 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 268 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Seite 284 - tis later, sir. Ban. Hold, take my sword. — There's husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out. — Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep : Merciful powers ! Restrain in me the cursed thoughts, that nature Gives way to in repose ! — Give me my sword ; — „ Enter MACBETH, and a Servant with a torch.
Seite 279 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Seite 267 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Seite 266 - Let not light see my black and deep desires; The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Seite 279 - But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams, That shake us nightly...
Seite 252 - But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, They were all struck for thee!
Seite 260 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Seite 280 - Be innocent of the knowledge , dearest chuck , Till thou applaud the deed. — Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!