...household firesides ; and as for Madonnas and Venuses, I think with Byron, — " I've seen more splendid women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal."' Still, I long for the full advent of our American day of art, already dawning auspiciously. After finishing...

...birds of prey). She was one Fit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors when all's done : I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). A certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was...

...Pygmalion, to find the statues warm, for very few people could say with Byron : " I've seen more pretty women ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." Byron never saw Gibson's painted Venus ; and it is a very dangerous Venus to gaze upon. This colouring...

...birds of prey). She was one Fit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors when all's done: I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). A certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was...

...prey). She was one Fit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors when all's done: I'vo seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). A certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was...

...all your galleries together " — a syllogism of sharp edge, which he would back up by Byron's — " I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." But here was one of Nature's own pictures, drawn and coloured by more than mortal hand, and framed...

...such ; for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary, (A race of mere impostors, when all's done — I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal.) CXIX. Til tell you why I say so, for 'tis just 119 One should not rail without a decent cause : There...

...! that make us sigh Fit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors, when all's done — I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). And such was she, the lady of the cave : Her dress was very different from the Spanish, Simpler, and...

...the corsetiere could ever reduce to delicate dimensions. Like Byron, he was ready to exclaim — " I've seen much finer -women ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." But just let there come by a dainty little creature of five feet two or three, with pointed heels tapping...

...material of sculpture. So that we do not question the sarcastic truth of Byron's couplet in Don Juan — " I've seen much finer women ripe and real Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." The question is, whether, with Nature's beautiful forms before him, the artist cannot idealise those...