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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authorities of Aristotle, Pausanias, Demetrius
Phalereus, Plutarch, Cicero, and Pliny, to de-
monstrate that the fame of this great man
was not established upon any one branch alone
of his profession; but that the powers of his
universal genius were as visible in the most
minute details and inconsiderable accessories,
as in his colossal statues and most sublime
conceptions. If the Metopes and the Frize bear
not uniformly the same exalted character with
the figures in the Pediments, stiil the compo-
sition of the groups, as far as we can judge
from their mutilated state, and the action
and spirit of the various scenes and incidents,
leave little room to doubt that the same pen-
cil first traced their outline. Some specimens
there are among the Centaurs and cavalry of
the Procession, as well as among the male
and female human figures in bas-relief, which
cannot be deemed inferior to any thing known
of ancient workmanship. We may, therefore,
be permitted to conclude, that these, if not
all the parts, had some share in the manual
labour of the superior artist, that, at least,
Phidias touched them with Promethean fire.