Her brow was white and low, her cheek's pure dye Like twilight rosy still with the set sun; Short upper lip — sweet lips! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such; for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors, when all's... Spirit of the English Magazines - Página 1061820Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Pierce Egan - 1851 - 624 páginas
...twilight rosy still with the set sun ; Short upper lip— sweet lips! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such : for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary ." BYRON. "A lovely lady garmented in lull s From her own beauty— deep her eyes, as are Two openings... | |
| William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt - 1852 - 486 páginas
...the same thing which he may find in nature ; and Lord Byron was of the same opinion when he said : " I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of the stone ideal." That, however, is Ehrensvard's theory, and what is singular enough, he has omitted... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 418 páginas
...household firesides ; and as for Madonnas and Venuses, I think with Byron, — " I've seen more splendid women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." Still, I long for the full advent of our American day of art, already dawning auspiciously. After finishing... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 446 páginas
...household firesides ; and as for Madonnas and Venuses, I think with Byron, — " I've seen more splendid women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal."' Still, I long for the full advent of our American day of art, already dawning auspiciously. After finishing... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 406 páginas
...household firesides ; and as for Madonnas and Venuses, I think with Byron,— " I've seen more splendid women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." Still, I long for the full advent of our American day of art, already dawning auspiciously. After finishing... | |
| John Wilson - 1855 - 360 páginas
...singing aloud (by the way, I saw not one at Keswick, perhaps because the place abounds in birds of prey). She was one Fit for the model of a statuary (A race...real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). A certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was... | |
| Frederick Chamier - 1855 - 352 páginas
...Pygmalion, to find the statues warm, for very few people could say with Byron : " I've seen more pretty women ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." Byron never saw Gibson's painted Venus ; and it is a very dangerous Venus to gaze upon. This colouring... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - 360 páginas
...singing aloud (by the way, I saw not one at Keswick, perhaps because the place abounds in birds of prey). She was one Fit for the model of a statuary (A race...real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). A certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - 364 páginas
...singing aloud (by the way, I saw not one at Eeswick, perhaps because the place abounds in birds of prey). She was one Fit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors when all's done: I'vo seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). A certain man... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 448 páginas
...rosy still with the set sun ; Short upper lip — sweet lips ! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such ; for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary,...real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal.) CXIX. Til tell you why I say so, for 'tis just 119 One should not rail without a decent cause : There... | |
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