| 1816 - 600 pages
...from having seen in London the valuable antique marbles, which you have brought hither from Greece. I think that I can never see them often enough: and...which is concealed by consummate and masterly skill. The naked is perfect flesh, and most beautiful in its kind — I think myself happy in having been... | |
| 1816 - 644 pages
...from having seen in London the valuable antique marbles, which you have brought hither from Greece. I think that I can never see them often enough: and...which is concealed by consummate and masterly skill. The naked is perfect flesh, and most beautiful in its kind. — I think myself happy in having been... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 834 pages
...from having seen in London the valuable antique marbles, which you have brought hither from Greece. I think that I can never see them often enough : and,...which is concealed by consummate and masterly skill. The naked is perfect flesh, and most beautiful in its kind. I think myself happy in having been able... | |
| British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Marble sculpture, Greek - 1830 - 226 pages
...united to the choice of the finest forms. Every thing," he observes, " breathes life, with a variety, with an exquisite knowledge of art, but without the...which is concealed by consummate and masterly skill. The naked flesh is perfect, and most beautiful in its kind." After receiving such high testimonials... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1831 - 510 pages
...of Mr. Haydon on the Elgin Marbles. Note 39, page 167, col. 2. An unobtrusive then ennobles form. " Every thing here breathes life, with a veracity, with...which is concealed by consummate and masterly skill." — Canova's Letter to the Earl of Elgin. Note 40, page 167, col. 2. There e'en the steed with bold... | |
| Mrs. Hemans, Reginald Heber - 1833 - 526 pages
...Marblea. Note 39, page 167, col. 2. Art unobtrusive there ennobles fonn. "Everything here breathes Ufe, with a veracity, with an exquisite knowledge of art,...which is concealed by consummate and masterly skill." — Canosa'» Letter to the Earl of Elgin. Note 40, page 167, col. 2. There e'en the «eed with bold... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1836 - 472 pages
...of Mr. Haydon on the Elgin Marbles. Note 39, page 167, col. 2. An unobtrusive there ennobles form. "Every thing here breathes life, with a veracity,...which is concealed by consummate and masterly skill." — Canora's Letter to the Earl of Elgin. Note 40, page 167, col. 2. There e'en the eteed with bold... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 594 pages
...and although my stay in this great capital must be extremely short, I dedicate every moment that 1 can spare to the contemplation of these celebrated...which is concealed by consummate and masterly skill. The naked is perfect flesh, and most beautiful in its kind. — 1 think myself happy in having been... | |
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