 ... is no effort at deceptive imitation of pressure. — It is understood as a pillow, but not mistaken for one. The hair is bound in a flat braid over the fair brow, the sweet and arched eyes are closed, the tenderness of the loving lips is set and quiet...  Tuscan Sculptors, Their Lives, Works and Times - Page 108by Charles Callahan Perkins - 1864 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1866 - 244 pages
...deceptive imitation of pressure. It is understood as a pillow, but not mistaken for one. The hair is bound in a flat braid over the fair brow, the sweet and...the body, and the hands cross as they fall. The feet ire hidden by the drapery, and the forms of the limbs concealed, but not their tenderness. If any of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1873 - 578 pages
...all night, and the artist admitted to a faithful study of the disturbed bedclothes in the morning. the fair brow, the sweet and arched eyes are closed,...are not lifted in prayer, neither folded, but the amis are laid at length upon the body, and the hands cross as they fall. The feet are hidden by the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1875 - 204 pages
...imitation of pressure.—It is understood as a pillow, but not mistaken for one. The hair is bound in a flat braid over the fair brow, the sweet and...fall. The feet are hidden by the drapery, and the form of the limbs concealed, but not their tenderness. 86. I do not know any district possessing a... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1875 - 206 pages
...imitation of pressure. — It is understood as a pillow, but not mistaken for one. The hair is bound in a flat braid over the fair brow, the sweet and...fall. The feet are hidden by the drapery, and the form of the limbs concealed, but not their tenderness. 86. I do not know any district possessing a... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1875 - 200 pages
...imitation of pressure. — It is understood as a pillow, but not mistaken for one. The hair is bound in a flat braid over the fair brow, the sweet and...fall. The feet are hidden by the drapery, and the form of the limbs concealed, but not their tenderness. 86. I do not know any district possessing a... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1879 - 464 pages
...the loving lips is set and quiet ; there is that about them which forbids breath ; something 3. '. which is not death nor sleep, but the pure image of both. -v :. The hands are not lifted in prayer, neither folded ; but the •j. ) arms are laid at length... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1880 - 204 pages
...imitation of pressure. — It is understood as a pillow, but not mistaken for one. The hair is bound in a flat braid over the fair brow, the sweet and...death nor sleep, but the pure image of both. The hands arenot lifted in prayer, neither folded, but the arms are laid at length upon the body, and the hands... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1885 - 390 pages
...severe and monumental in their lines ; not shroud, CHAP, in. III. OF REPOSE. 183 The hair is bound in a flat braid over the fair brow,* the sweet and...the hands cross as they fall. The feet are hidden not bedclothes, not actual armour nor brocade ; not a real soft pillow, not a downright hard-stuffed... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1890 - 334 pages
...concomitants should be distinctly marble, severe and monumental in their lines ; not shroud, bound in a flat braid over the fair brow,* the sweet and...as they fall. The feet are hidden by the drapery, not bedclothes, not actual armour nor brocade ; not a real soft pillow, not a downright hard-stuffed... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 444 pages
...deceptive imitation of pressure. It is understood as a pillow, but not mistaken for one. The hair is bound in a flat braid over the fair brow, the sweet and...death nor sleep, but the pure image of both. The hands iire not lifted in praver. neither folded, but the arms are laid at length upon the l,ody, and the... | |
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