Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin marbles: with an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (Band 1): Illustrated with forty plates (London, 1817)

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have enough left to serve as an abundant
source of admiration and delight, as an ac-
knowledged standard of pure taste, and as
the finest models for those who would strive
to earn themselves a name by becoming dis-
ciples of the Grecian school. We must, in-
deed, consider it as one of the greatest excel-
lences of this collection, that no hand, skil-
ful or otherwise, has been permitted to mis-
place modern members on ancient trunks, or
to distract the attention of the true lover of
science from the genuine work of the best
artists, in the best cera of the art—by supply-
ing the deficiencies which two-and-twenty cen-
turies have produced, with such crude, in-
congruous, imaginary attributes, as are too
often called, by a sad misnomer, restorations.
It is, surely, no trifling intellectual gratifica-
tion to gaze on the same statue on which
Pericles and the Athenian critics most as-
suredly bestowed their approbation, and Phi-
dias, most probably, some portion of his in-
comparable skill. A feeling sui generis, inde-
scribable, but allied to awe, is excited by the
reflection that these carved stones, untouched