 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
 | Charles Kingsley - 1888 - 556 pages
...worth 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 pages
...up]>er lip— sweet lips ! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such : for she was one Fit for tile mode] feet. And wilder hands would hold the vessel's sheet ; Young hearts, which languish'd I han all their nonsense of the stone ideal). cxix. ¡'II tell you why I say so, for 'tis just One... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 324 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 clone — I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). HAID£E... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 374 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).... | |
 | 1896 - 468 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 - 1899 - 592 pages
...and not for Byron. He returns to the charge in Don "Juan, Canto II. stanza cxviii. lines 5-9 — "... a statuary, (A race of mere impostors, when all's...real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal)." Even while confessing the presence and power of " triumphal Art " in sculpture, one of " the two most... | |
 | John Wilson - 1899 - 362 pages
...Keswick, perhaps because the place abounds in birds of prey). She was one Fit for the model of a ntntuary (A race of mere impostors when all's done: I've seen...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... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 1076 pages
...sculpture could have given me." Lord Byron had evidently this last passage in his mmd when he wrote — "I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." Though Lady Mary was often an apologist for Turkish laws and customs, she did not forget to expose... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1899 - 430 pages
...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 colored by more than mortal hand, and framed over... | |
 | John Ebenezer Bryant - 1899 - 328 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).... | |
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