Excursions in Art and LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 - 295 Seiten |
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... clearly seem to show that under these giant shapes he meant to embody allegorically at once the sad condition of humanity and the op- pressed condition of his country . What lends it- self still more to this interpretation is the charac ...
... clearly seem to show that under these giant shapes he meant to embody allegorically at once the sad condition of humanity and the op- pressed condition of his country . What lends it- self still more to this interpretation is the charac ...
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... clear that the chapel was not completed until 1512. But this in itself , con- sidering all the breaks and intervals when the work was necessarily interrupted , is stupendous . The extraordinary rapidity with which he worked is clearly ...
... clear that the chapel was not completed until 1512. But this in itself , con- sidering all the breaks and intervals when the work was necessarily interrupted , is stupendous . The extraordinary rapidity with which he worked is clearly ...
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... clearly distinguishing the work of Phidias , and saying not a word about the metopes , bassi - relievi , or statues in the pediment , or indicating him as their author . " " But granting that Plutarch is right , it is quite 52 ...
... clearly distinguishing the work of Phidias , and saying not a word about the metopes , bassi - relievi , or statues in the pediment , or indicating him as their author . " " But granting that Plutarch is right , it is quite 52 ...
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... clearly settled to have been by Bryaxis . So also the Kairos , or Opportunity , by Lysippus , was attributed to Phidias ... clear that many of the statues in the foregoing list must also be rejected . In the last ten years of his life he ...
... clearly settled to have been by Bryaxis . So also the Kairos , or Opportunity , by Lysippus , was attributed to Phidias ... clear that many of the statues in the foregoing list must also be rejected . In the last ten years of his life he ...
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... authorities , to be little doubt that the Nemesis was the work of Agora- critos . Nothing could more clearly show the easy way in which traditions grow like barnacles upon artists and works of 70 EXCURSIONS IN ART AND LETTERS .
... authorities , to be little doubt that the Nemesis was the work of Agora- critos . Nothing could more clearly show the easy way in which traditions grow like barnacles upon artists and works of 70 EXCURSIONS IN ART AND LETTERS .
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Agoracritos Alcamenes ancient Aphrodite argilla artists attributed to Phidias Banquo battle of Marathon beauty called casting in bronze casting in plaster centuries cera Chapel character Christ chryselephantine clay color colossal crime Damophilus death Dibutades divinities doubt Duncan ectypa effigiem effigies elaborate executed exprimere fact fears feeling figures finished gods Greeks gypsum hand Ictinus imagination imaginem invented ivory and gold Jupiter king Lady Macbeth least look Lucian Lysippus Lysistratus Macduff marble statues mean Medicean Chapel ment metopes Michel Angelo mind mould murder names nature never noble Olympiad painted Parthenon passage Pausanias Pericles Perkins Phidias Pliny Plutarch Polyclitus portraits Praxiteles probably process of casting Raffaelle remorse representing Romans Rome scarcely sculptor seems signa sleep speaks spirit stamp statement statue of Athena superstitious supposed temple terra cotta thenon things thou thought tion toreutic truth ture under-cuttings vultus words writers Zeus καὶ
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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!