 | Dorothy Canfield Fisher, George Rice Carpenter - 1906 - 306 páginas
...virtue and perfection, which without such helps are never able to make their appearance. . . . Aristotle tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble,...and that the art of the statuary only clears away superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it.... | |
 | Poetry - 1870 - 264 páginas
...to make their appearance. If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate...and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.... | |
 | 1901 - 570 páginas
...to make their appearance. If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate...clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubhisl. The figure is in Ihe slone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble,... | |
 | John Hamilton Moore - 1806 - 402 páginas
...make their appearance. 2. If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate...statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that the artof the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is... | |
 | 1865 - 974 páginas
...a nature not to be emulated. Aristotle said a statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of statuary only clears away the superfluous matter,...figure is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good or great man, very often lie hid in the... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1883 - 452 páginas
...the art of the statuary ; the statue lies hidden in the block of marble and the artist only cleaves away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish....figure is in the stone ; the sculptor only finds it." The poet Gray has embodied the same sentiment in the following beautiful stanzas : " Perhaps in this... | |
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If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue... 
