(American sculptors series, <pb id='337.png' n='1975h2/A/2858' /> vol.3) © 25Sep47; A18675.

VIII When, through dead stone to breathe a soul of light, With the dull matter to unite The kindling genius, some great sculptor glows; Behold him straining every nerve intent Behold

Liu Pei, general and ruler Liu Shao-ch'i, political leader Liu Sung, rebel Liu Tsung-yüan, writer Liu Ts'ung, ruler Liu Yao, ruler Liu Yü, general emperor Liu Yüan, sculptor emperor

At length he wrought her to the pitch of desperation by his heartless indifference; then, one day, he brought home a portrait bust which a sculptor friend had made and with it a signed record of every hour and minute of his absence.

Let the sculptor group about its base Rurik and his followers, who in rude might hewed out strongholds for the coming nation.

The thought is this: just as a sculptor hews from a block of marble the form that lies concealed within, so the lover has to extract from his lady's heart the life or death of his soul,

"Painters present arms!" "Sculptors charge bagonets!"

The mystic formula or "mani" is imprinted on the pavement of the streets, it floats on flags from the temples, and the wealthy Buddhists maintain sculptor-missionaries, Old Mortalities of the water-lily, who, wandering to distant lands, carve the blessed words upon cliff and stone.

The painter may paint, the sculptor model, the lyric poet sing, simply to please himself, but the drama has no meaning except in relation to an audience.

I turned from these titled infants to watch a group of beautiful American children playing, for my attention was drawn to them by the sound of familiar words, and I learned afterwards they were the children of the sculptor Powers.

Twas the tale of the sculptor Pygmalion of old; Fair Ellen remember'd, and sigh'd; "Ah, could'st thou but lift from that marble so cold, Thine eyes too imploring, thy arms should enfold, And press me this day as thy bride.

It disclosed an arm the sight of which would have made a sculptor rejoice as over some marbles of old Greece.

Competent judges, who have narrowly surveyed the monument, say that the stones are badly put together, and the workmanship is defective in important requirements of the sculptor-mason's craft.

The stone which the sculptor carves becomes a fit vehicle for his thought through its resistance to his chisel; it sustains the impress of his imagination solely through its unwillingness to receive the same.