 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
 | John Wilson - 1871 - 362 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, Thau all the nonsense of their stone ideal). A certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1871 - 364 pages
...the way, I saw not oue 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 when all.s done: I.ve seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal).... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1872 - 554 pages
...of Haidee he reproaches sculptors as being without distinction ' a race of mere impostors.' I have seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal.1 He detested the pictures of saints. Rubens was to him a dauber ; he felt shocked by his colossal... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...as sigh Ever to have seen such ; for she was one (A race of mere impostors, when all's done— Tve seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ¡deal). Fit for the model of a statuary And such was she, the lady of the cave : Simpler, and yet... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 404 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,...real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). I'll tell you why I say so, for 'tis just One should not rail without a decent cause : There was an... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...sweet lips ! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such ; for she was one Fit for the model of a statnary ndian bowers has stood, But thought on England' s...bless'd, beneath the palmy shade, Her hazel and her ha Lord Byron. — Born 1788, Died 1824. 1349. — HAIDEE VISITS THE SHIPWRECKED DON JUAN. And down the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 368 pages
...was one Fit for the model of a statnary (A race of mere impostors, when all's done — I've seen mnch finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). I'll tell yon why I say so, for 'tis jnst One shonld not rail withont a decent canse : There was an... | |
 | Alexander Mackie - 1874 - 442 pages
...come to our fingers' points. I am more disposed to quote Byron's lines — " I've seen more splendid women ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." We go in search of the "Dying Gladiator." Expectation is not disappointed. Here in a hall, with few... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1875 - 444 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,...real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). I'll tell you why I say so, for 'tis just One should not rail without a decent cause : There was an... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1876 - 478 pages
...Beskrivelsen af Haidee (Don Juan II, 118) forekaster han Billedhuggerne, at de alle tilhobe dog kun fuske: I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal. Han afskyede Helgenmaleriet; Rubens var ham en Smører; han følte Modbydelighed overfor hans kolossale... | |
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