In the time of Carrey, the composition in this pediment was nearly perfect, and to understand the torsos which remain, reference should be made to Carrey's drawing (Plate v.
In the intervening middle space, two torsos are lying on the floor of the pediment.
And yet by looking on these torsos of the haberdasher, one is not brought to thoughts of sad mortality.
In the window of the haberdasher, shirts--mere torsos with not a leg below or head above--yet disport themselves in gay neckwear.
In the grimy light these seemed to have come to life--the torsos leaning over, hunching their shoulders at him as if blaming him for their suffering; the masks mocking at his misery, leering at each other.
Above in the dull gloom hung a row of plaster models, his own handiwork--fragments of arms and hands with fists clenched ready to strike; queer torsos writhing in pain; queerer masks with hollow eyes.
Arria Marcella had just entered her litter, borne by four strong Syrian slaves, naked to the waist, whose bronze torsos shone under the sunlight.
And modern practice was doubtless founded on the mistake of supposing that, because the torsos we dig up are white now, they were white originally.
Pietro Testa copied the Torsosof antiquity, and supplied them with extremities drawn from the dregs of Nature.
Some, their heads enveloped in striped green or blue cloth, with narrow drawers closely fitting to their loins, showed to the belt their bare torsos the colour of baked clay.
The workmen had already been a long while at work, and here and there out of the waves of the corn showed their woolly or close-shaven heads covered with pieces of white stuff, and their naked torsos the colour of baked brick.
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