An essay on sculpture [by P.B. Duncan.]. |
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الصفحة 54 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God cf life, and poesy, and light — The Sun in human limbs array'd, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot — the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance ; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might And majesty, flash their full lightnings by, llevcloping in that one glance the Deity.
الصفحة 54 - The shaft hath just been shot — the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance : in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might And majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity. But in his delicate form — a dream of Love, Shaped by some solitary nymph, whose breast Long'd for a deathless lover from above...
الصفحة 52 - Or, turning to the Vatican, go see Laocoon's torture dignifying pain — A father's love and mortal's agony With an immortal's patience blending : — vain The struggle ; vain, against the coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench ; the long envenom'd chain Rivets the living links, — the enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.
الصفحة 54 - And if it be Prometheus stole from Heaven The fire which we endure, it was repaid By him to whom the energy was given Which this poetic marble hath...
الصفحة 41 - The archangel's trump alone shall wake that slumber deep. Take up those flowers that fell From the dead hand, and sigh a long farewell ! Your spirits rest in bliss ! Yet ere with parting prayers we say, Farewell for ever to the...
الصفحة 26 - the anatomist would look in vain to detect even the slightest mistake or misconception ; yet such is the simplicity of the whole composition, so fine and undulating the forms, that a trifling error would appear as a gross fault. Every part is equally perfect : the bend of the head and declining of the neck most graceful ; the shoulders manly and large without clumsiness ; the belly long and flat, yet not disfigured by leanness ; the swell of the broad chest under the arm admirable...
الصفحة 42 - Chantrey, be the fame That joins to immortality thy name. — For these sweet children that so sculptured rest — A sister's head upon a sister's breast — Age after age shall pass away, Nor shall their beauty fade, their forms decay. For here is no corruption — the cold worm Can never prey upon that beauteous form...
الصفحة 41 - LOOK at those sleeping children ! — softly tread. Lest thou do mar their dream ; and come not nigh 'Till their fond mother, with a kiss, shall cry, " 'Tis morn, awake ! awake !" Ah ! they are dead ! Yet folded in each other's arms they lie — So still — oh, look ! so still and smilingly ; So breathing and so beautiful they seem As if to die in youth were...
الصفحة 40 - Torrigiano's resentment, who considered this present rather as an insult, than as a reward for his merit, and, on a sudden, snatched up his mallet, and without regard to the perfection of his workmanship, or the sacred character of the image, he broke it into pieces, and dismissed the lacqueys with their load of farthings to tell the tale.
الصفحة 13 - Jupiter?" — which examples were followed by succeeding artists. ' We have all been struck by the resemblance of figures in coloured waxwork to persons in fits, and therefore such a representation is particularly proper for the similitude of persons in fits, or the deceased : but the Olympian Jupiter and the Athenian Minerva were intended to represent those who were superior to death and disease.