 Her brow was white and low, her cheek's pure dye Like twilight rosy still with the set sun ; Short upper lip— sweet lips ! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such ; for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary, (A race of mere impostors, when all's...  The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron - Page 35by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1862 - 580 pages
...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... | |
 | James McGrigor Allan - 1863 - 412 pages
...more than one connoisseur, fully demonstrated the truth of Byron's lines : — " I've seen more lovely women ripe and real Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal.' ' So unexpected was the lovely apparition, that it elicited a low murmur or buzz of admiration from... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1865 - 480 pages
...set sun ; Short upper lip — sweet lips ! that make us sigh Ever to have seen 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).... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...Like twilight rosy still with the set sun ; Short upper lip — sweet lips ! that make us sigh Kit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors, when all's dona— I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Tban all the nonsense of their stone ideal). And... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 pages
...sun ; Short upper lip — eweet lipa ! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such ; for bbc was on« e below, thy hopes a all 'e done — I've seen much Uuer women, ripe and real, Than all the ntmwnsc of their btuiie ideal).... | |
 | John Wilson - 1868 - 376 pages
...the way, I saw not one at Keswick, perhaps because the place abounds in birds of prey). She was one Fit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors...done: I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than nil the nonsense of their stone ideal). A certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...set sun; ^liort upper lip— sweet lips that make us su;!i Ever to have seen such : for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary {A race of mere impostors, when all's tlon I've seen much finer women, ripe nnd re.i!. Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). CXIX.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 pages
...; [dye Short upper lip — sweet lips ! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such : for she was one h in their their nonsense of the stone ideal). cxix. I'll tell you why I say so, for 'tis just One should not... | |
 | John Wilson - 1871 - 356 pages
...the way, I saw not one at Keswick, perhaps because the place abounds in birds of prey). She was one Fit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors...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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1871 - 364 pages
...the way, I saw not one at Kecwick, perhaps because the place abounds hi birds of prey). She was oue Fit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors...women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their atone ideal). A certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.... | |
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