Let any sculptor hew us out the most ravishing combination of tender curves and spheric softness that ever stood for woman ; yet if the lip have a certain fulness that hints of the flesh, if the brow be insincere, if in the minutest particular the physical... Poems of Sidney Lanier - xxxvi psl.autoriai: Sidney Lanier, William Hayes Ward - 1884 - 252 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| Richard Burton - 1914 - 374 psl.
...in triumph, victorious in the strife for the prizes that are undefiled." Here are Lanier's words: " Let any sculptor hew us out the most ravishing combination of tender curve and spheric softness that ever stood for woman; yet if the lip have a certain fullness that hints... | |
| Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1916 - 522 psl.
...lectures to the students of Johns Hopkins University he declared true beauty and true holiness to be one: flesh, if the brow be insincere, if in the minutest...the physical beauty suggest a moral ugliness, that sculptor—unless he be portraying a moral ugliness for a moral purpose— may as well give over his... | |
| 1883 - 1002 psl.
...wherever there is contest as between artistic and moral beauty, unless the moral side prevail all is lost. Let any sculptor hew us out the most ravishing combination...ever stood for woman ; yet, if the lip have a certain fullness that hints of the flesh, if the brow be insincere, if in the minutest particular the physical... | |
| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1886 - 590 psl.
...As Lanier has said of a statue of exquisite workmanship : " If the lip have a certain fulness which hints of the flesh, if the brow be insincere, if in...moral purpose, may as well give over his marble for paving-stones. Time, whose judgments are inexorably moral, will not accept bis work." Of course, I... | |
| 1894 - 548 psl.
...sentences : " The greatest work has always gone hand in hand with the most fervent moral purpose. . . . Let any sculptor hew us out the most ravishing combination...ever stood for woman ; yet if the lip have a certain fullness that hints of the flesh, if the brow be insincere, if in the slightest particular the physical... | |
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