 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 614 pages
...slightly curls his full upper lip. Yet dignified and unperturbed, conscious of his power, and confident in his success, he gives one proud glance to see the...dart, and scarcely pauses in his majestic course.' Vol. I. pp. 166, 167. This is vigorous writing ; but the Apollo still remains undescribed, and will,... | |
 | 1827 - 496 pages
...moment attracts his regard. Some feeling of transient indignation and disdain swells his nostrils, and slightly curls his full upper lip. Yet, dignified...am astonished there can be any doubt of it. " The left hand and arm have been most clumsily restored by some bungling sculptor. The right arm, and the... | |
 | 1827 - 500 pages
...moment attracts his regard. Some feeling of transient indignation and disdain swells his nostrils, and slightly curls his full upper lip. Yet, dignified...am astonished there can be any doubt of it. " The left hand and arm have been most clumsily restored by some bungling sculptor. The right arm, and the... | |
 | Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 366 pages
...moment attracts his regard. Some feeling of a transient indignation and disdain swells his nostrils, and slightly curls his full upper lip. Yet dignified,...that I am astonished there can be any doubt of it. " How often, while I gazed upon it in silent and unutterable admiration, did it seem to be instinct... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1852 - 536 pages
...our dazzled senses ; and well does he stand here, where everything seems to breathe and burn with his essence, where all around is his creation, and every...serpent, is, I think, so evident in the whole air, THE APOLLO BELVEDEBE. 105 action, and expression of " the heavenly archer," that I am astonished there... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1852 - 536 pages
...Hercules ; it is the might of mind which raises him above brute force, and makes us feel that " a &od, a visible God," is before us, and that his triumph...I am astonished there can be any doubt of it.* The left hand and arm have been most clumsily restored by some bungling sculptor. t The right arm, and... | |
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God," is before us, and that his triumph is secure ; for vainly would a mortal presume to contend with him. He does not bend on us that serene eye. Some object more distant, but beneath him, for a moment attracts his regard. Some feeling of transient... 