 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1890 - 348 Seiten
...nor flaky nor splintery, but uniform, and delicately, yet not ignobly soft — exactly soft enough to allow the sculptor to work it without force, and trace on it the finest lines of finished forms; and yet so hard as never to betray the touch or moulder away beneath the steel; and so admirably... | |
 | 1896 - 572 Seiten
...yet not ignobly, soft, — exactly soft euough to allow the sculptor to wurk it without force, aud trace on it the finest lines of finished form : and yet so hard 113 never to betray the touch, or moulder away beneath the steel ; aud so admirably crystalized, and... | |
 | John Watson, Sedgwick Museum - 1916 - 510 Seiten
...exactly of the consistence best adapted for sculpture, so soft as to allow the sculptor to work at it without force, and trace on it the finest lines...to betray the touch, or moulder away, beneath the steel1. Thus could architects and sculptors create the harmonies of form and symmetry in column and... | |
 | J. Dorman Steele - 1877 - 298 Seiten
...splintery, but uniform and delicately, yet not ignobly soft—exactly soft enough to allow the sctlptor to work it without force, and trace on it the finest lines of finished form ; yet it is so hard as never to betray the touch or moulder away beneath the steel; and so admirably... | |
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... and yet so hard as never to betray the touch or moulder away beneath the steel; and so admirably crystallized, and of such permanent elements, that no rains dissolve it, no time changes it, no atmosphere decomposes it; once shaped, it is shaped... 
