The glory of a statue to the great general means countless and nameless graves of forgotten soldiers.
Next day I told Lawrence to buy me a wooden crucifix, a statue of Our Lady, a portrait of St. Francis, and two bottles of holy water.
And the attitude of the people at the time of its destruction shows that it could not have borne for them the same sacred character as the statue of Minerva in the Parthenon did for the Greeks or that of Capitoline Jove for the Romans.
Athenians, had raised a mighty statue to one who belonged to the same class in a social sense as himself, viz.
It contained only one altar, and upon it a marble statue of the god.
A statue of a sleeping god holding a vase was disinterred by Dr.
Pachacuti states that the cause of the anger of Viracocha was that upon the Sierra there was the statue of a woman to whom human victims were sacrificed.
There again you have the admission that there is a definite building or statue to "restore"; that ineffaceable image of man that some call the image of God.
It was the first instance of an equestrian statue erected in London to a subject.
Treaty, see Eastern Question) Trench, Sir Frederic, and the statue of the Duke of Wellington, i.
Most people thought that it was absurd and in bad taste to place a statue there.
Wyatt, Matthew, statue by, of the Duke of Wellington, i.
It consisted of a hollow hemispherical dome, supported by four columns, and placed over the statue of the goddess of many breasts.
The air contained in the latter, being dilated, passed through the tube X M and pressed on the milk contained in the altar, and caused it to rise through the straight tube into the interior of the statue as high as the breasts.
At the Italian exhibition held a few years ago in the Champ de Mars, Paris, there was a statue that attracted much attention from the visitors.
Two points here are specially worthy of attracting our attention, and these are the flow of wine or milk from the statue of Bacchus, and the spontaneous lighting of the altar.
The small altar which supported the statue, and which was filled with milk, communicated with the interior of the statue by a tube reaching nearly to the bottom.
The next step in the change will be set before you in a moment, merely by comparing this statue from the west front of Chartres with that of the Madonna, from the south transept door of Amiens.
From the statue they now began to turn the attention chiefly to the niche of the statue, and from the floral ornament to the mouldings that enclosed the floral ornament.
Now, will you tell me the logical difference between drawing the profile of a moulding and giving that to be cut, and drawing the folds of the drapery of a statue and giving those to be cut.
On the Slottsplads (Palace Square) which faces east, is an equestrian statue of Frederick VII.
Behind King George's palace from the Bredgade lies the Amalienborg-plads, having in the centre an equestrian statue of Frederick V.
The statueis familiarly known as Hesten (the horse) and is surrounded by noteworthy buildings.
In a niche behind the altar stands a colossal marble statue of Christ, and marble statues of the twelve apostles adorn both sides of the church.
The tree toppled and, in its fall, dashed a statue of Venus, which stood beneath it, into fragments.
There was a turn in the road; they had just reached the place where the statue had been shattered.
The statue of Victory was still in the atelier and was almost finished.
The same ray of moonlight that shone upon the Venus de Milo rested tremblingly on the lips of the statue which the king had kissed.
No one knew what character Irma intended to appear in, although many supposed that it would be as Victoria, since it was well known that she stood for the model of the statue that surmounted the arsenal.
An eternal kiss rests upon a statue at the arsenal, and the stars, the moon and the sun look down upon it.
In his statue in Fairmount Park he is represented as having horns, and he is so portrayed in the statue by Michael Angelo.
It was Egypt that first made the statue live with her own life, and humanized her ideal of the divine.
In 1822 his statue was crowned on the stage of the Grand Opera, at a performance of his "Valentine de Rohan.
It has a statue of Richard, Duke of York, father of Edward IV.
Footnote 10: The first verses in the original of this poem are placed as a motto on Goethe's statue at Weimar.
Out of the matter which thy pains control The Statue springs!
When o'er the chords thy fingers steal, A soulless statue now I feel, And now a soul set free!
The statue represents a youth of remarkable beauty; his hair is parted evenly in the midst of his forehead and streams over either cheek.
But it is far from[45] likely that it is a statueof the philosopher Pythagoras.
For these, when some one orders them to make a statue of Hermes, search for wood adapted to the reception of the proper form; but those pretend that they can readily produce the works of virtue from every nature.
This statue may represent one of the youthful favourites of the tyrant Polycrates[43] hymning his master's love in Anacreontic[44] strain.
Oea on the question of the erection of a statue in his honour.
Suppose I had said nothing about the statue of Venus, nor used the phrase which was of such service to you, what words would you have found to frame a charge, which is as suited to your stupidity as to your powers of speech?
The other he found impossible to describe with decency, and evaded the difficulty by turning to my works and quoting a certain passage from them in which I described the attitude of a statue of Venus.
An oration of thanks to Aemilianus Strabo and the senate of Carthage for decreeing a statue in his honour.
Carthage decreed a statue in his honour (Florida 16), and conferred on him the chief-priesthood of the province.
Finally, he, a man in whose honour every province rejoices through all the world to erect four or six horse chariots, promised that he would erect my statue at Carthage at his own expense.
The excellent photograph of Prince Henry's statue from the great gateway at Belem is the work of Senhor Camacho.
Now and again she pointed out some feature of the town with pride, as when they climbed the steps under the column on which stands the statue of the Duke of York.
Their veneration grew with time, just as bad weeds grow up in corn, as Holy Writ sets forth for our example, and that abominable statue became the chiefest of their gods, though they had many others equally horrible.
Certainly you will not find a jall in the Zoo, or even at South Kensington, though you may see a very excellent statue of him on King Henry VIII.
Were the statue anywhere else than in the Louvre, probably it would be known generally (as it is to scholars) by its proper name--the Aphrodite of Melos.
In front of them stood a great statue on a pedestal; the figure of a thing, half-man half-goat, crouched as though to spring.
He stood for a moment with the statuein his hand, with such a strange look in his face, that the new-comer thought for an instant that his gift must have aroused some sad association.
Carhart's physique was like a rough model for a statue of Hercules, and his record was just as solid--a pile made for the pure joy of it, without cheap extortion or shady scandal.
She put her chin in the air like the statue of France Aroused, and then spoiled the pose somewhat by raising the lemon for action.
His hair was pitch black, damp and curly--the hair of a Grecian statuegone brunette.
