 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pàgines
...expresses is such as might almost turn the human countenance itself into marble! In general, then, I would be understood to maintain, that the beauty and...in support of these observations, which has in some measure been lately discovered, is to be found in the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Acropolis at Athens,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pàgines
...expresses is such as might almost turn the human countenance itself into marble ! In general, then, I would be understood to maintain, that the beauty and...in support of these observations, which has in some measure been lately discovered, is to be found in the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Acropolis at Athens,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pàgines
...expresses is such as might almost turn the human countenance itself into marble ! In general, then, I would be understood to maintain, that the beauty and...in support of these observations, which has in some measure been lately discovered, is to be found in the Elgin Marbles, taken from • the Acropolis at... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1838 - 594 pàgines
...head, combines truth and beauty with deep passion. But here the passion is fixed, intense, habitual; it is not a sudden or violent gesticulation, but a settled...in support of these observations, which has in some measure been lately discovered, is to be found in the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Acropolis at Athens,... | |
 | 1838 - 588 pàgines
...combines truth and beauty with deep passion. But here the passion is fixed, intense, habitual ; it is not a sudden or violent gesticulation, but a settled...striking authority in support of these observations, *hich has in some measure been lately discovered, is to be found in the Hgin Marbles, taken from the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1843 - 450 pàgines
...expresses is such as might almost turn the human countenance itself into marble ! In general, then, I would be understood to maintain that the beauty and...in support of these observations, which has in some measure been lately discovered, is to be found in the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Acropolis at Athens,... | |
 | George Cleghorn - 1848 - 368 pàgines
...Grecian remains. This is evident in numberless passages, some of which will be afterwards noticed. " In general, then, we would be understood to maintain...in support of these observations, which has in some measure been lately discovered, is to be found hi the Elgin marbles, taken from the Acropolis of Athens,... | |
 | George Cleghorn (writer on art.) - 1848 - 366 pàgines
...Grecian remains. This is evident in numberless passages, some of which will be afterwards noticed. " In general, then, we would be understood to maintain...in support of these observations, which has in some measure been lately discovered, is to be found in the Elgin marbles, taken from the Acropolis of Athens,... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 266 pàgines
...combines truth and beauty with deep passion. But here the passion is fixed, intense, habitual ; it is not a sudden or violent gesticulation, but a settled...in support of these observations, which has in some measure been lately discovered, is to be found in the Elgin marbles, taken from the Acropolis at Athens,... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1873 - 508 pàgines
...expresses is such as might almost turn the human countenance itself into marble ! In general, then, I would be understood to maintain that the beauty and...support " of these observations, which has in some measure been lately discovered, is to be found in the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Acropolis at Athens,... | |
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Greek statues were not a voluntary fiction of the brain of the artist, but existed substantially in the forms from which they were copied, and by which the artist was surrounded. A striking authority in support of these observations, which has in some... 
