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BAS-RELIEF, AND PEDIMENTAL SCULPTURE. 255
that no one had told him one-hundredth part of what
he discovered then in one instant. Bernini, in like
manner, is said to have discovered beauties in nature,
by having first seen them in the Medicean Venus.
" There too the goddess loves in stone, and fills
The air around with beauty; we inhale
The ambrosial aspect, which, beheld, instils
Part of its immortality : the veil
Of heaven is half withdrawn; within the pale
We stand, and in that form and face behold
What mind can make, when nature's self would fail;
And to the fond idolatry of old
Envy the innate flash which such a soul could mould.
" We gaze and turn away, and know not where,
Dazzled and drunk with beauty ; till the heart
Reels with its fulness ; there—for ever there—
Ohain'd to the chariot of triumphal Art
We stand as captives, and would not depart.
Away! there need no words nor terms precise—
The paltry jargon of the marble mart,
Where Pedantry gulls Polly—we have eyes:
Blood, pulse, and breast, confirm the Dardan shepherd's
prize."
Childe Harold.
moderns have produced."—Barry's Lectures, Lect. ii. " The
authority of the ancients, in regard to matters of taste, must be
considered as little short of revelation."—Okie's Lectures, iv.
" Prom the remains of the works of the ancients the modern arts
were revived, and it is by their means that they must be restored
a second time. However it may mortify our vanity, we must
be forced to allow them our masters, and we may venture to
prophesy, that when they shall cease to be studied, arts will no
that no one had told him one-hundredth part of what
he discovered then in one instant. Bernini, in like
manner, is said to have discovered beauties in nature,
by having first seen them in the Medicean Venus.
" There too the goddess loves in stone, and fills
The air around with beauty; we inhale
The ambrosial aspect, which, beheld, instils
Part of its immortality : the veil
Of heaven is half withdrawn; within the pale
We stand, and in that form and face behold
What mind can make, when nature's self would fail;
And to the fond idolatry of old
Envy the innate flash which such a soul could mould.
" We gaze and turn away, and know not where,
Dazzled and drunk with beauty ; till the heart
Reels with its fulness ; there—for ever there—
Ohain'd to the chariot of triumphal Art
We stand as captives, and would not depart.
Away! there need no words nor terms precise—
The paltry jargon of the marble mart,
Where Pedantry gulls Polly—we have eyes:
Blood, pulse, and breast, confirm the Dardan shepherd's
prize."
Childe Harold.
moderns have produced."—Barry's Lectures, Lect. ii. " The
authority of the ancients, in regard to matters of taste, must be
considered as little short of revelation."—Okie's Lectures, iv.
" Prom the remains of the works of the ancients the modern arts
were revived, and it is by their means that they must be restored
a second time. However it may mortify our vanity, we must
be forced to allow them our masters, and we may venture to
prophesy, that when they shall cease to be studied, arts will no