 | John Addington Symonds - 1877 - 570 pages
...celebrated sonnet used by Varchi for his dissertation, the best known of all Michael Angelo's poems.2 The thought is this : just as a sculptor hews from...in 1546. See Guasti, p. 173, for the sonnet, and p. Ixxv. for the dissertation. See also Gotti, p. 249, for Michael Angelo's remarks upon the latter. APPENDIX... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1877 - 568 pages
...celebrated sonnet used by Varchi for his dissertation, the best known of all Michael Angelo's poems.2 The thought is this : just as a sculptor hews from...hand that serves the brain can do. 1 Guasti, p. 212. 2 Delivered before the Florentine Academy in 1546. See Guasti, p. 173, for the sonnet, and p. Ixxv.... | |
 | Michelangelo Buonarroti - 1878 - 236 pages
...For my fierce heat, chastened and taught by you ? XV. THE LOVER AND THE SCULPTOR. Non ha /' ottimo artista. The best of artists hath no thought to show...spell Is all the hand that serves the brain can do. The ill I shun, the good I seek, even so In thee, fair lady, proud, ineffable, Lies hidden : but the... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 586 pages
...white ; Those tears and flames that in one breast unite ; If thou wilt once more take thy fill of mel Yet Love ! Suppose it true that thou dost thrive Only...212. * Delivered before the Florentine Academy in 1 546. See Guasti, p. 173, for the sonnet, and p. Ixxv. for the dissertation. See also Gotti, p. 249,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1882 - 588 pages
...white ; Those tears and flames that in one breast unite ; If thou wilt once more take thy fill of me 1 Yet Love ! Suppose it true that thou dost thrive Only...hand that serves the brain can do. 1 Guasti, p. 212. 9 Delivered before the Florentine Academy in 1 546. See Guasti, p. 173, for the sonnet, and p. Ixxv.... | |
 | Charles Callahan Perkins - 1882 - 514 pages
...well with me when I have a chisel in my hand," and he tells us in one of his most beautiful sonnets, " The best of artists hath no thought to show Which...stone in its superfluous shell Doth not include."* Teeming with possibilities, the virgin block seemed to his mind the prison of a captive idea waiting... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1885 - 576 pages
...white ; Those tears and flames that in one breast unite ; If thou wilt once more take thy fill of me 1 Yet Love ! Suppose it true that thou dost thrive Only...212. ' Delivered before the Florentine Academy in 1 546. See Guasti, p. 173, for the sonnet, and p. Ixxv. for the dissertation. Sec also Gotti, p. 249,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1888 - 562 pages
...celebrated sonnet used by Varchi for his dissertation, the best known of all Michael Angelo's poems.1 The thought is this: just as a sculptor hews from...212. * Delivered before the Florentine Academy in 1 546. See Guasti, p. 173, for the sonnet, and p. Ixxv. for the dissertation. See also Gotti, p. 249,... | |
 | Charles Francis Keary - 1891 - 538 pages
...which I have myself often found a sort of talisman upon the drier roads of history and of life : — The best of artists hath no thought to show Which...include : to break the marble spell Is all the hand which serves the brain can do.' Its application to the present case is that even the dreariest chronicles... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1893 - 584 pages
...surface gives being to a figure, which ever grows the more the stone is hewn away." And again2 — The best of artists hath no thought to show Which...spell Is all the hand that serves the brain can do. S. Matthew seems to palpitate with life while we scrutinise the amorphous block ; and yet there is... | |
| |
The best of artists hath no thought to show Which the rough stone in its superfluous shell Doth not include: to break the marble spell Is all the hand that serves the brain can do. 
