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Daedalus, or, The causes and principles of the excellence of Greek sculpture (1860)

Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, author · London : Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts · leaf 382

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disgusting, it is a man vomiting ; but we thought this better suited for comparison, as it represents a lion. Monsters quite as ugly, and quite as gross, may be seen ornamenting some of our colleges at Oxford, affording models of the beautiful and the sublime to the minds of our ingenuous youth.… … so in these gargoyle heads, the Gothic one will assuredly be pronounced more earnest, and therefore more beautiful. The author of the “ Seven Lamps ” may have the lamp of Power, but can the possession of the lamp of Power justify a man in neglecting to subject his labours to the lamp of Reason ?…

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