 | 1872 - 806 pàgines
...Capitol that he seems to have observed the statue which suggested his romance. Then at last he says : " I looked at the Faun of Praxiteles, and was sensible of a peculiar charm in it ; a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once. The lengthened, but not preposterous ears, and the little tail,... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1871 - 940 pàgines
...splendour, shining through such forlornness ! We afterwards went into the sculpture gallery, where I looked at the Faun of Praxiteles, and was sensible of a peculiar charm in it ; a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once. The lengthened, but not preposterous ears, and the little tail... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1872 - 504 pàgines
...Borghese. He then writes down his impression thus : " We afterwards went into the Sculpture Gallery, where I looked at the ' Faun of Praxiteles,' and was sensible...of a peculiar charm in it — a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once. The lengthened, but not preposterous ears, and the little tail... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1871 - 274 pàgines
...such splendor shining through such forlornness ! We afterwards went into the sculpture-gallery, where I looked at the Faun of Praxiteles, and was sensible of a peculiar charm in it ; a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once. The lengthened, but not preposterous ears, and the little tail,... | |
 | 1872 - 794 pàgines
...Capitol that he seems to have observed the statue which suggested his romance. Then at last he says : " I looked at the Faun of Praxiteles, and was sensible of a peculiar charm in it ; a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once. The lengthened, but not preposterous ears, and the little tail,... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1872 - 364 pàgines
...renews the impression derived from the Faun : — ' We afterwards went into the sculpture gallery, where I looked at the Faun of Praxiteles, and was sensible of a peculiar charm in it ; a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once. The lengthened, but not preposterous ears, and the little tail,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1872 - 328 pàgines
...renews the impression derived from the Faun : — ' We afterwards went into the sculpture gallery, where I looked at the Faun of Praxiteles, and was sensible of a peculiar charm in it ; a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once. The lengthened, but not preposterous ears, and the little tail,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 588 pàgines
...splendor, shining through such f orlornness ! We afterwards went into the sculpture-gallery, where I looked at the Faun of Praxiteles, and was sensible of a peculiar charm in it ; a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once. The lengthened, but not preposterous ears, and the little tail,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 546 pàgines
...his visit to the Capitol, Hawthorne says : — " We afterwards went into the sculpture gallery, where I looked at the Faun of Praxiteles, and was sensible of a peculiar charm in it ; a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once. The lengthened but not preposterous ears, and the little tail... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop - 1883 - 538 pàgines
...his visit to the Capitol, Hawthorne says : — " We afterwards went into the sculpture gallery, where I looked at the Faun of Praxiteles, and was sensible of a peculiar charm in it ; a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once. The lengthened but not preposterous ears, and the little tail... | |
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I looked at the Faun of Praxiteles, and was sensible of a peculiar charm in it; a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once. The lengthened, but not preposterous ears, and the little tail, which we infer, have an exquisite effect, and make... 
