The sarcophagi were to support statue-portraits of the Dukes and Popes, with Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano.

From the hall are the avenues leading to the state apartmentsdrawing-rooms, dining-rooms, throne-room, statue-gallery, picture-gallery, &c. *

The alabaster of the face, so pure as scarcely to show the blue branching of the veins on the temples, is lighted by those superb eyes "Shining eyes, like antique jewels set in Parian statue-stone," whose wells are so dark and deep, that you are cheated into the belief that a glorious soul looks out of them.

Your present plan, therefore, I think a wise oneviz., to constitute yourselves into "a statue committee," for the successful carrying out of your own original and very practicable design,handing over any surplus funds which may remain to any other committee or body willing to prosecute the larger professorship or lectureship scheme.

Its patterns are trivial, its paintings and statues commonplace; and I personally have the feeling that it would have been more fitting had Giotto's marble been supplied rather with a contrast than an imitation.

He was overheard by some of the people, accused of blasphemy and condemned to die; but on expressing great contrition and offering to pay a fine to any amount, he was pardoned, on the condition of his promising to erect a bronze statue gilt of Jesus Christ on the same spot, at his own expense, with an inscription explaining the reason of its construction; which promise he punctually performed.

The center of the place is therefore appropriately occupied by a colossal statue group, modern, of Pieter de Coninck and Jan Breidel, the leaders of the citizens of Bruges at the Battle of the Spurs before the walls of Courtrai in 1302, a conflict which secured the freedom of Flanders from the interference of the Kings of France.

[Sidenote: Basis of statue law.]

He had all the talent and the means requisite to embody his conceptions in a manner worthy of their might and majesty; his treasury was rich in everything rare and beautiful for illustration, but he possessed not the instinct requisite to guide him in the selection of the things necessary to the inspiration of delight:he could give his statue life and beauty, and warmth, and motion, and eloquence, but not a tuneful voice.

I did not leave that spotstanding statue-like and looking along both roadsuntil I heard the rumble of the departing train, and then I repaired to the Old Hall, my soul uplifted.

"As on a carven statue Men gaze, I gazed on him; I seemed on fire with mad desire To kiss that offered limb: My ruin, Aphroditè, Thus followed from my whim.

but the stane-statue o' the late Lord Melville, staunin' a' by himsell up in the silent air, a hunder-and-fifty feet high, has then a ghastly seeming in the sky, like some giant condemned to perpetual imprisonment on his pedestal, and mournin' ower the desolation of the city that in life he loved so well.

BEFORE A STATUE OF BUDDHA O Buddha, of the mystic smile And downcast, dreamful eyes, To whom unnumbered sacred shrines And gilded statues rise, Whose fanes are filled with worshippers, Whose hallowed name is sung By myriads of the human race In every Eastern tongue, What means thy sweet serenity?

That statue shop [of Chantrey's] was his bane!

And now the Sorceress bares her shrivel'd hand, And circles thrice in air her ebon wand; Flush'd with new life descending statues talk, 280 The pliant marble softening as they walk; With deeper sobs reviving lovers breathe, Fair bosoms rise, and soft hearts pant beneath;

2 Place on the statues texts bound around them.

"If it was a common, dacent, quite (quiet,) well-behaved churchyard a'self," thought Larry, half-aloud"but when 'tis a place like this forsaken ould berrin'-ground, which is noted for villiany""For what, Larry?" said a gentleman, stepping out of a niche which contained the only statue time had spared.

Remove his marble, and his genius dies: With nature then no breathing statue vies.

You must not imagine, from my observations on the fair tenant of the Volante, that this is a land of beautyfar from it: one feature of beauty, and one only, is generalgood eyes: with that exception, it is rare; but there are some few lovely daughters of Eve that would make the mouth of a marble statue water.

Joe's and Abraham's complicity in the statue affair furnished them with a complete alibi in regard to the other.

At last, my strong desire carried me to the same [European] city [where the old statue-worshipper had been]; I wandered through its streets and lanes like a lunatic, and I often remained near the seraglio of the princess; but I could get no opportunity to have an introduction to her.

The custom soon arose of attaching to the statue bits of writing; and as it had been allowed to the tailor to say everything, so by means of the statue any one might publish what he would not have ventured to speak.

Cold Winter views amid his realms of snow DELANY'S vegetable statues blow; Smooths his stern brow, delays his hoary wing, And eyes with wonder all the blooms of spring.