The pictures, the
statues, the flowers, the jewels, the carriages, and the horses--inquiry proved, to my indescribable astonishment, that not a sixpence of debt was owing on any of them.
From sumptuous Versailles, with its palaces, its
statues, its gardens, and its fountains, we journeyed back to Paris and sought its antipodes-- the Faubourg St.
and the grand hall, with its gilding, its azure, its statues, its pointed arches, its pillars, its immense vault, all fretted with carvings?
had himself sculptured on his knees before the Virgin, and whither he caused to be brought, without heeding the two gaps thus made in the row of royal statues, the statues of Charlemagne and of Saint Louis, two saints whom he supposed to be great in favor in heaven, as kings of France.
At the door of the Uffizzi, in Florence, one is confronted by
statues of a man and a woman, noseless, battered, black with accumulated grime--they hardly suggest human beings-- yet these ridiculous creatures have been thoughtfully and conscientiously fig-leaved by this fastidious generation.
When Ojo entered the room he ran quickly to the statue of Unc Nunkie and kissed the marble face affectionately.
As he said this the Wizard advanced to the statue of Margolote and made a magic pass, at the same time muttering a magic word that none could hear distinctly.
What, if a city did become a mummy, and a statue lay in the mud!
In the mud of your contempt lay the statue: but it is just its law, that out of contempt, its life and living beauty grow again!
"Do you know that mood when one could scream because a mat is crooked?" he said to March, as they walked up and down in the back garden below the line of dingy statues. "Women get into it when they've worked too hard; and I've been working pretty hard lately, of course.
Harold March darted out of the doorway into the back garden with its steep slope of statues.
The traveller who visits the Vatican, and passes from chamber to chamber through galleries of statues, vases, sarcophagi and candelabra, through all forms of beauty cut in the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung, and that they had their origin from thoughts and laws in his own breast.
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are.
"We must both go to bed now, and at daybreak I will call you and at once complete your transformation into a marble
statue."
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the
statue of the Happy Prince.
