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...wrence of Arabia (1962) were each 3 hours and 42 minutes. Walt Disney - with 26 statues - won the most awards. Alan Menken for music and Denis M... ...tecs and Indians as a decorative motif in headdresses, necklaces, and ornaments on statues of divinities. In the 16th century, both Hernando Cortes... ...s androgyny (bisexuality). http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Judaism/star.html Statues The United States boasts a few statue-related records.... ...ts measure 18 meters tall. Compare it to the Zizkov Monument in Prague, the biggest equestrian memorial. It stands a mere 9 meters tall. There are...

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...s like knights' castles, Spanish patios, arched windows, Greek columns and statues from Antiquity. The era of mixed-style buildings gradually petered ... ...ded a procession of horse-drawn vehicles, election of the horse queen, and equestrian competitions at the city's sports stadium; the highlights were a...

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...dy replied that the boy had already been at the morning performance of the equestrians, but was most eager to go in the evening likewise. And go he di... ...cely clear of the place, when we heard “God save the Queen,” played by the equestrian band, the sig- nal that all was over. Our companion entertained ... ...The stalls, the columns, the fountains, 25 Some Roundabout Papers courts, statues, splendours, are all crowned for Christmas. The delicious negro is ...

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...f Painting and Sculpture, expa tiate at any length on famous Pictures and Statues. This Book is a series of faint reflections—mere shadows in the wat... ... with grass and weeds; all sorts of hideous patches cover the bases of the statues, as if they were afflicted with a cutaneous disorder; the outer gat... ...d to be prim and quaint, with avenues, and terraces, and orange trees, and statues, and water in stone basins; and everything was green, gaunt, weedy,... ...of from the town: surrounded by beautiful gardens of its own, adorned with statues, vases, fountains, marble basins, terraces, walks of orange trees a... ...ever seem to find. A mysterious and solemn Palace, guarded by two colossal statues, twin Genii of the place, stands gravely in the midst of the idle t... ...rumpet that ever was blown. Immediately, came tearing round the corner, an equestrian company from Paris: marshalling themselves under the walls of th... ...stibly suggested at the mo ment, nevertheless. 80 Pictures from Italy An equestrian troop had been there, a short time before— the same troop, I dar...

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..., venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at the company of world-famous statues in the saloon,—in the hope of putting the reader into that state of... ...been simul- taneously struck by a resemblance between one of the an- tique statues, a well-known masterpiece of Grecian sculp- ture, and a young Itali... ... only a corroded and discolored stone. This change is very apt to occur in statues.” “And a similar one in pictures, surely,” retorted the sculp- tor.... ...d in the intervals, from pillar to pillar, are strewn fragments of antique statues, headless and legless torsos, and busts that have invariably lost w... ...n, as if pictures could not be made to glow in any other atmosphere, as if statues could not assume grace and expression, save in that land of whitest... ...summit of the Capitoline Hill. They stood awhile to contemplate the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. The moonlight glistened upon traces o...

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...dhall; Bedlam, and those carved maniacs at the gates, Perpetually recumbent; Statues—man, And the horse under him—in gilded pomp Adorning flowery garde... ...at the trumpet puffs his cheeks, The silver collared Negro with his timbrel, Equestrians, tumblers, women, girls, and boys, Blue breeched, pink vested...

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...ench, as usual, had robbed their shrines of their gold and silver, and the statues of their jewels and crowns. But brass and tinsel look to the visito... ...grapes, onions, and sunshine; the sign- boards, bottled-porter stores, the statues of saints and little chapels which jostle the stranger’s eyes as he... ...l stirrups are deuc- edly short; the clumsy leathers cut the shins of some equestrians abominably; you sit over your horse as it were on a tower, from...

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..., venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at the company of world-famous statues in the saloon,—in the hope of putting the reader into that state of... ...been simul- taneously struck by a resemblance between one of the an- tique statues, a well-known masterpiece of Grecian sculp- ture, and a young Itali... ... only a corroded and discolored stone. This change is very apt to occur in statues.” “And a similar one in pictures, surely,” retorted the sculp- tor.... ...d in the intervals, from pillar to pillar, are strewn fragments of antique statues, headless and legless torsos, and busts that have invariably lost w... ...n, as if pictures could not be made to glow in any other atmosphere, as if statues could not assume grace and expression, save in that land of whitest... ...summit of the Capitoline Hill. They stood awhile to contemplate the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. The moonlight glistened upon traces o...

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... a matter of course, only be in- scribed with the Cogito ergo Sum. The two statues mark the two opposite poles to which the brilliant French mind has ... ...aeval tower, which is ornamented by Gothic windows and the empty niches of statues; a mea- gre but delicate hotel de ville, of the Renaissance, nest- ... ... one side by the theatre, a pompous build- ing, decorated with columns and statues of the muses. Nantes belongs to the class of towns which are always... ... of its commanding position. This hotel, “magnifique construction ornee de statues,” as the Guide-Joanne, usually so reticent, takes the trouble to an... ...cent, takes the trouble to announce, has an omnibus, and, I sup- pose, has statues, though I didn’t perceive them; but it has very little else save im... ...t, straddling across the place by which you approach it from the town), an equestrian statue of that monarch set aloft in the middle of the terrace, a...

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...nd the two figures at its gates, Streets without end and churches numberless, Statues with flowery gardens in vast squares, 135 The Monument, and Armour... ...at the trumpet puffs his cheeks, The silver collared negro with his timbrel, Equestrians, tumblers, women, girls, and boys, 680 Blue breeched, pink ve...

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...ep. Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves. But that the r... ... opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves. But that the reader may j... ...very elaborate, took hold of my fancy and my eye in a way that none of the statuesque attitudes exhibited in the ballets at the Opera- house, though s...

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...t looks; “Dick can ride the horse.” But Archibald was too great a lover of equestrian exercise. “I’m afraid to trust anybody on this horse,” said he w... ...comic), Canterfield (the tyrant), and Jonesini (the celebrated Fontarabian Statuesque), were all on the steps, and shouted for Mrs. Captain Walker’s c... ...by numerous rank creepers and weedy flowers, but in the midst of which the statues stood with their bases quite moist and green. I hate fountains and ... ... is the most inhospitable sound ever heard. The stiff grin of those French statues, or ogling Canova Graces, is by no means more happy, I think, than ...

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... in his face, though perhaps more talked of than really appar- ent, to the statues of king Alexander. And because many ap- plied that name to him in h... ...tellus, when he adorned the temple of Castor and Pollux with paintings and statues, among the rest dedicated hers for her singular beauty. In his cond... ...mpanied with three such successes, could not fail of being invincible. The statues that gave the best representation of Alexander’s person, were those... ..., of whom nine were foot-soldiers; and in memory of them he caused so many statues of brass, of Lysippus’s making, to be erected. And that the Grecian... ...ter of Greece, as he was walking up and down at Delphi, and looking at the statues, at the sight of that of Alexander he was suddenly struck with alar... ...nights and the people. But Caius joined three hundred ordinary citizens of equestrian rank with the sena- tors, who were three hundred likewise in num... ...ed his supplication to the people. However, first of all, almost the whole equestrian order changed their dress with him, and no less than twenty thou...

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...aste. Murders have their little differences and shades of merit as well as statues, pictures, oratorios, cameos, intaglios, or what not. You may be an... ...the attempt impossible. Y ou still think otherwise. See, then, that bronze equestrian statue. The cruel rider has kept the bit in his horse’s mouth fo... ...m masters of the first performances of the arts. Copies of the most famous statues, and groups of sculpture in the precious metals; trophies of victor...

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...e. It was covered like a melon with a network of tracery. Over it stood an equestrian portrait of Henri III., under whom the ancient duchy of appanage... .... She was rather like the little, straight, slim and slender, ivory-tinted statues, which those wonderful sculptors, the builders of cathedrals, place...

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...se, ten miles from Paris with a so-called “park,” which he will adorn with statues of tinted plaster and fountains which squirt mere threads of water,... ... to tell where the Bordeaux vineyards end. And yet they haven’t erected an equestrian statue to the marshal in Bordeaux!” “Ah! if anything of that kin...

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...was one of those who contributed most to bring all created work, pictures, statues, books, building under the single standard of Art. He had begun his... ...e, while Nathan, enchanted, believed them to be, as on the occasion of his equestrian wants, the best fellows in the world. He thought he managed them...

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...uch juster grounds than to Silanio and Parrhasius, for making pictures and statues of Theseus. There being then a custom for the Grecian youth, upon t... ...m and their chief magistrates consules, namely, coun- selors), or else the equestrian Neptune, for the altar is kept covered in the circus maximus at ... ...an- deur; others, that Publicola was the first that rode in tri- umph. The statues of Romulus in triumph are, as may be seen in Rome, all on foot. Aft... ...t when I was at Rome, I heard many say, that, when the oracle directed two statues to be raised, one to the wisest, and another to the most valiant ma... ...eration. Other wonders of the like nature, drops of sweat seen to stand on statues, groans heard from them, the figures seen to turn round and to clos... ... longish and out of proportion. For which reason almost all the images and statues that were made of him have the head covered with a helmet, the work... ...ed and exasperated them one against another. At length when the senate and equestrian order concerted mea- sures together, and openly manifested their... ...ousand swordsmen, and had always about him a com- pany of young men of the equestrian class ready for all occa- sions, whom he styled his Anti-Senate....

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...ot. That good man, who, when I was young, gelded so many noble and ancient statues in his great city, that they might not corrupt the sight of the lad... ...[The Pope who, as Montaigne has told us, took it into his head to geld the statues.]—should also have con- sidered that, peradventure, it were a chast... ...heatres, all faced with marble without, curiously wrought with figures and statues, and within glit- tering with rare enrichments: “Baltheus e... ...[“Let him go out, he said, if he has any sense of shame, and rise from the equestrian cushion, whose estate does not sat- isfy the law.”—Juvenal, iii.... ...who were ever drain- ing their mines to make this vast heap of vessels and statues for the decoration of their palaces and temples; whereas our gold i... ...ng too strict a hand upon them. I have seen elsewhere houses in ruins, and statues both of 242 Essays: Book III gods and men: these are men still. ’T...

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...and, are too good for such a place, and are also too numerous. This set of statues is by Crawford. Most of them are well known, and they are very fine... ...of this one at Washington, immediately facing the President’s house, is an equestrian statue of General Jackson. It is very bad; but that it is not ne... ... bad; but that it is not nearly as bad as it might be is proved by another equestrian statue—of General Washington— erected in the center of a small g... ...ear the bridge leading to 18 North America V ol. 2 Georgetown. Of all the statues on horseback which I ever saw, either in marble or bronze, this is ...

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...ll originally, and no practice availed to give him a firm seat, a graceful equestrian deportment, or a skilful bridle hand. In a barba- rous age the o... ...r at any games, olympic, or whatsoever they might be, were memorialized by statues exactly representing the living man in the year of victory, taken e...

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...ded, adding that there was a great gallery at home all full of pillars and statues, the jolliest place in the world for making a row. “Oh dear! oh dea... ...e.” “A statue! why, don’t you see lots every day?” “Oh! I don’t mean great equestrian things like the T rafalgar Square ones, or the Duke—or anything ... ...he said, “I am glad there is no worse harm done. You had better defer your statueship till we can find you a sounder pedestal, Lady Caergwent.” “Oh! c...

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...mple rises, or marble scrolls and leafy exuberance airily support ing the statues of the saints, was a hundred times ethereal ized by the purity and... ...s, rocks in which fossil corn is found. Emolument, a headstone to a grave. Equestrian, one who asks questions. Eucharist, one who plays euchre. Franch... ...about 500 years. Greece had only 7 wise men. Socrates . . . destroyed some statues and had to drink Shamrock. Here is a fact correctly stated; and yet...

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... the wide darkness of Novara, over a bridge apparently, past huge rain-wet statues, and through more rainy, half-lit streets. They stopped at last out... ...e moment he hated the young women. He had a conversation with Arthur about statues: concerning which Aaron knew nothing, and Arthur less than nothing.... ...een, as he turned into the square, was the back of one of these Bandinelli statues: a great naked man of marble, with a heavy back and strong naked fl... ...at the fountain splashing water upon its wet, wet figures; and the distant equestrian statue; and the stone-flagged space of the grim square. And he f...

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...ing him, when he asked what was the best kind of brass, ‘That of which the statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton were made.’ These were the two Atheni... ...ators, and seats for the vestal virgins. Next above were galleries for the equestrian order, the great mass of those who considered themselves as of g...

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... and slipped fur- tively into the long courtyard of the Institute, full of statues, busts, half-finished marbles, plasters, and baked clays; at all of... ...le, except under the microscope of a close observer. These persons are the equestrian order of poverty; they continue to drive about in cabriolets. In...

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...esh projected at the side beyond the fin- ger-nails, like those of antique statues. I should displease you, I know, if you were not yourself an except... ...here she was waiting, she urged her horse to the side of the road with the equestrian dexterity for which she was famous, and which to Henriette seeme...

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...banners and martial trophies suspended in the vast hall, and the busts and statues which adorned the corners, looked in on the plate which was being p... ...ittle T an- kard Yard,’ he said on day, having caught his victim under the equestrian statue in front of the Exchange. ‘What is the good of my coming ... ...m I 543 Anthony Trollope only know that he has bought a great many marble statues. He has done nothing for his country, and nothing for his sovereign...

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...agination had fashioned them, porticos of stately palaces, and towers, and statues white among cypresses; and farther, minutely-radiant in the vista a... ...r-boy’s gallop kept her senses in motion for many hours, and that reckless equestrian embodied the idea of the vivifying pace from which she had dropp... ...eat, and bit at salted morsels. It was a strange sight for Georgiana, this statuesque weeping, that got human bit by bit, till the bosom heaved long s...

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...nd sat down on a small bench against the wall, where they remained mute as statues, though at such a distance that their whispers could not have inter... ...om a state of violent emotion and high exci- tation to the stillness of an equestrian statue, “Sir Disinherited Knight,” said Prince John, “since that...

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...n which Rose was riding broke down. He took a horse; but, not being a good equestrian, was very soon pitched into a hole full of mud. While there M. d... ...on the gates of Paris, the churches, the public places; above all upon the statues; which during the night were insulted in various fashions, the mark... ...n them, passed into another cabinet, and left them both nearly turned into statues. They looked at each other frozen by what they had just heard, and ... ...buildings, gardens, waters, aqueducts, the curious and well known machine, statues, precious fur- niture, the park, the ornamental enclosed forest,—Ma...

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...easure in fancy ing ourselves knights of a new, or rather an old, order—not Equestrians or Chevaliers, not Ritters or Riders, but Walk ers, a still ... ...ch produces a chemical effect; that granite rocks, and stone structures, and statues of metal “are all alike de structively acted upon during the hou...

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...at he might put his horse in their stables, vary his fodder, and learn the equestrian capabilities of many lands. Perceiving what a life Leufroid was ... ...f man is neither poetry, nor painted pictures, nor music, nor castles, nor statues, be they carved never so well, nor rowing, nor sailing galleys, but... ...and adorned it with the furniture, for- eign tapestries, chests, pictures, statues, and curiosities, of his wife, who was a great connoisseur, which m...

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...en mobs and even regular troops under express command had mutilated church statues, smashed church windows, wrecked church organs, and torn up the she... ...sheets from which the church music was read and sung. When they saw broken statues in churches, they were told that this was the work of wicked, godle... ...ssed anyhow in a rich robe of black pile that shows off her white skin and statuesque contour. MRS HUSHABYE. Ellie, my darling, my pettikins [kissing ... ...gin as a child. There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes. It isn’t mere convention: ever...

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... give the gar- dener half-a-crown, and mamma says, that is exorbitant— and statues standing all round—real marble statues.” “Like the groves of Blarne... ...ut the snow birds. But there were only these flower-trees, and a pond, and statues standing round it, and I don’t think they were Americans, for I kno... ...by the shorter way , across Belforest park, skirting the gardens where the statues stood up, look- 123 Yonge ing shivery and forlorn, as if they were... ...g,” said Allen, “except just to show it was not the natural development of statues.” “Yes,” added Bobus, “it all came of you that poor Dickey Bird is ... ... to be touching all her children, who turned into hard, cold, solid golden statues fixed on pedestals in the Belforest gardens, where she wandered abo... ...eral melee, in which Jock danced successively with Cinderella and the fair equestrian of Banbury Cross, and lost sight of Fatima, till, just as he was...

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...hem up for the decision, first one and then the other, as if they were two statues. 48 Plato’s The Republic I do my best, he said. And now that we kn... ... our citizens, or about their hunting and cours ing, their gymnastic and equestrian contests? For these all follow the general principle, and having... ...e, I said, men passing along the wall carry ing all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials... ...n any case blessed and divine. You are a sculptor, Socrates, and have made statues of our governors faultless in beauty. Yes, I said, Glaucon, and of ...

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...d in all its abuses, but also because these parties (a faction amongst the equestrian order) could have effectually overthrown any counter-faction for... ...r natural protector being absent by three months’ march— simply the golden statues of the mighty Caesars, half rising on their thrones, must have caus...

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...st. The pictures seemed to light up, the Virgin’s heads smiled on him, the statues seemed alive. Everything danced and swayed around him, with a motio... ...l necessities. “Death to the weak!” That is the oath taken by this kind of Equestrian order, instituted in their midst by all the nations of the world...

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... had been two hours buried, went with them. No parterres, no fountains, no statues, embellished this little garden. Its only ornament was a short walk... ...ne,” says he, “I would wage a shilling that the pedestrian outstripped the equestrian travellers; but, as I intend to take the company of a pipe, pera... ...by which he had discovered such a sight, that Joseph hath declared all the statues he ever beheld were so much inferior to it in beauty, that it was m...