Catalogue of the Casts, Busts, Reliefs, and Illustrations of the School of Design and Ceramic Art, in the Museum of Art, at the Melbourne Public Library |
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... renowned for acts of valor , for having introduced civilising arts , wise laws , or useful inventions , were raised above the rank of mere mortals to celestial honors . At an early period the Greeks gave form to the a 2.
... renowned for acts of valor , for having introduced civilising arts , wise laws , or useful inventions , were raised above the rank of mere mortals to celestial honors . At an early period the Greeks gave form to the a 2.
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Melbourne (Vic.). Public Library. At an early period the Greeks gave form to the great divinities to which they ... periods : — The Dædalian . That of Pericles ; or , the Heroic . That of Alexander the Great . THE FIRST ranged over ...
Melbourne (Vic.). Public Library. At an early period the Greeks gave form to the great divinities to which they ... periods : — The Dædalian . That of Pericles ; or , the Heroic . That of Alexander the Great . THE FIRST ranged over ...
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... period are in this collection . THE SECOND Combined with the grosser figures invented in the time of fable , as well as with the loveliness of female grace , the stateliness of heroic proportion developed into sublimity in gods and ...
... period are in this collection . THE SECOND Combined with the grosser figures invented in the time of fable , as well as with the loveliness of female grace , the stateliness of heroic proportion developed into sublimity in gods and ...
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... period . Amongst the cotemporaries and immediate successors of the above - named Artists , were Ctesilaus , Naucydes , of Argos , Pythagoras , of Rhegium , in Italy , successful in a contest with Myron ; Calamis , Phradmon , and ...
... period . Amongst the cotemporaries and immediate successors of the above - named Artists , were Ctesilaus , Naucydes , of Argos , Pythagoras , of Rhegium , in Italy , successful in a contest with Myron ; Calamis , Phradmon , and ...
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... period were the Temple of Minerva , at Tegea , in Arcadia , the largest and most magnificent in the Peloponnesus , and the Mausoleum . The former was built under the direction of Scopas , of Paros , whose Venus - removed subsequently to ...
... period were the Temple of Minerva , at Tegea , in Arcadia , the largest and most magnificent in the Peloponnesus , and the Mausoleum . The former was built under the direction of Scopas , of Paros , whose Venus - removed subsequently to ...
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Page 31 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 77 - The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.
Page 28 - ... That day I oft remember when from sleep I first awaked and found myself reposed Under a shade on flowers much wondering where And what I was whence thither brought and how. Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave and spread Into a liquid plain then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky.
Page 28 - Pure as the expanse of heaven ; I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky. As I bent down to look...
Page 38 - Aphrodite beautiful, Fresh as the foam, new-bathed in Paphian wells, With rosy slender fingers backward drew From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair Ambrosial, golden round her lucid throat And shoulder: from the violets her light foot Shone rosy-white, and o'er her rounded form Between the shadows of the vine-bunches Floated the glowing sunlights, as she moved.
Page 33 - We fled amazed ; their destined way they take, And to Laocoon and his children make : And first around the tender boys they wind, Then with their sharpen'd fangs their limbs and bodies grind...
Page 26 - Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue ; Sometimes in...
Page 25 - Assyrian queen. But far above in spangled sheen Celestial Cupid, her famed son, advanced Holds his dear Psyche sweet entranced After her wandering labours long, Till free consent the gods among Make her his eternal bride, And from her fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and Joy; so Jove hath sworn.
Page 31 - Were with his heart, and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire, And unavenged? Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 38 - Part of its immortality; the veil Of heaven is half undrawn ; within the pale We stand, and in that form and face behold What Mind can make, when Nature's self would...