 The first thing I fixed my eyes on, was the wrist of a figure in one of the female groups, in which were visible, though in a feminine form, the radius and ulna. I was astonished, for I had never seen them hinted at in any female wrist in the antique....  A Century of Archæological Discoveries - Page 39by Adolf Michaelis - 1908 - 366 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...their midst of the Parthenon sculptures, and all that flows therefrom for better and for worse : — " To Park Lane then we went, and after passing through...astonished, for I had never seen them hinted at in any female wrist in the antique. I darted my eye to the elbow, and saw the outer condyle visibly affecting... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - Artists - 1853 - 408 pages
...naturally when Wilkie got this order for the marbles, his first thought was that I would like to go. To Park Lane then we went, and after passing through...astonished, for I had never seen them hinted at in any female wrist in the antique. I darted my eye to the elbow, and saw the outer condyle visibly affecting... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - Painters - 1853 - 568 pages
...naturally when Wilkie got this order for the marbles, his first thought was that I would like to go. To Park Lane then we went, and after passing through...astonished, for I had never seen them hinted at in any female wrist in the antique. I darted my eye to the elbow, and saw the outer condyle visibly affecting... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - Artists - 1853 - 446 pages
...entered a damp dirty pent-house where lay the marbles ranged within eight and reach. The first thing T fixed my eyes on was the wrist of a figure in one...astonished, for I had never seen them hinted at in any female wrist in the antique. I darted my eye to the elbow, and saw the outer condyle visibly affecting... | |
 | American periodicals - 1887 - 890 pages
...their midst of the Parthenon sculptures, and all that flows therefrom for better and for worse : — To Park Lane then we went, and after passing through...astonished, for I had never seen them hinted at in any female wrist in the antique. I darted my eye to the elbow, and saw the outer condyle visibly affecting... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Aesthetics - 1890 - 434 pages
...went, and after passing through the hall and thence into an open yard, entered a damp, dirty pen-house, where lay the marbles ranged within sight and reach....astonished, for I had never seen them hinted at in any female wrist in the antique. I darted my eye to the elbow, and saw the outer condyle visibly affecting... | |
 | George Paston - Painters - 1905 - 350 pages
...on," relates Haydon, " was the wrist of a figure in one of the female groups, in which were visible the radius and ulna. I was astonished, for I had never seen them hinted at in any wrist in the antique. I darted my eye to the elbow, and saw the outer con\ dyle visibly affecting... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1887 - 926 pages
...their midst of the Parthenon sculptures, and all that flows therefrom for better and for worse : — " To Park Lane then we went, and after passing through...astonished, for I had never seen them hinted at in any female wrist in the antique. I darted my eye to the elbow, and saw the outer condyle visibly affecting... | |
 | Mary Nisbet Ferguson - Elgin marbles - 1926 - 412 pages
...fixed my eyes on, was the wrist of a figure in one of the female groups, in which were visible, tho' in a feminine form, the radius and ulna. I was astonished! For I had never seen them hinted at, in any female wrist, in the antique. I darted my eye to the elbow and saw the outer condyle visibly affecting... | |
 | Christopher Hitchens, Robert Browning, Graham Binns - Art - 1997 - 164 pages
...1808 and was to become one of their greatest propagandists: The first thing I fixed my eyes on, was a wrist of a figure in one of the female groups, in...astonished, for I had never seen them hinted at in any female wrist in the antique . I darted my eye to the elbow, and saw the outer condyle visibly affecting... | |
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