 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 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 toucL or moulder away beneath the steel ; and so admirably... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1872 - 500 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 hnes of finished forms ; and yet so hard as never to betray the toucL or moulder away beneath the steel... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 314 Seiten
...brittle, 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 form ; yet it is so hard as never to betray the touch or moulder away beneath the steel ; and so admirably... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - 1877 - 302 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 form ; yet it is so hard as never to betray the touch or moulder away beneath the steel ; and so admirably... | |
 | Young men's Catholic assoc - 1878 - 406 Seiten
...exactly of the grain required for sculpture, neither flaky, brittle, nor splintery, but just soft enough to allow the sculptor to work it without force and trace on it the finest lines of form, yet hard enough to maintain itself in delicate forms, although the mere pressure of the chisel... | |
 | 1883 - 822 Seiten
...for high art of the marble of the country, which was so stainlessly pure, delicate, and uniform — so soft as to allow the sculptor to work it without force, and trace on it his iinest lines, and yet so hard as never to betray the touch or moulder away beneath the chisel.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 644 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 tinished form ; and yet so hard as never to betray the touch or moulder away beneath the steel; and... | |
 | James Edward Talmage - 1888 - 282 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 form; yet it is so hard as never to betray the touch or moulder away beneath the steel; and so admirably... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1888 - 424 Seiten
...marble of the country, which was so stainlessly pure, delicate, and uniform — as Ruskin remarks, so soft as to allow the sculptor to work it without force, and trace on it his finest lines, and yet so hard as never to betray the touch or moulder away beneath the chisel.... | |
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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... 
