I think, then, that Michelangelo may have meant to pose these three figures where they are, facing the altar; to raise the Madonna upon a slightly projecting bracket above the level of SS.

He admitted to himself that he had really wished to pose a little in her eyes: to be the noble hero in the third act who goes away from temptation.

I'le pose thy Worship in thine own Library and Almanack, which thou art daily poring on, to pick out days of iniquity to cozen fools in, and Full Moons to cut Cattle: dost thou taint me, that have run over Story, Poetry, Humanity? Bri.

The stiff hand of the white which had garbed the wedding party in the ungraceful clothing of the European mode had failed to pose the natural attitude of the Tahitian toward good cheer.

A jay posed his deep shining blue on a cluster of scarlet sumac, and, cocking his crested head, screamed at him mockingly.

Ronner has invented a method of posing cats that is ingenious and of great advantage.

Secondly, he didn't seem to believe in having competent persons around him and preferred to work with someone who was less likely to pose a challege in the years to come.

"But particularly in the learning of languages, there is the least occasion to pose children."Id.

Such as were unconcerned in their confessions, and seemed rather to do it from the examples of others, than from a real and deep sense of their guiltiness before God (as it must not be dissembled, there were too many,) he exhorted to attain a sense of the things confessed, and posed their consciences, whether they were convinced of what they pretended to confess.

Our fat Belgian chauffeur, violinist in times of peace, and posing that day as an American,one of those men who look as if they would bleed water if you pricked them with a bayonet,needed no second warning.

He is said to have been a barber, and to have risen by his exertions with the razor; but, against that legend, is to be posed the fact that on the titles of his earliest books, dedicated to public men who must have known, he styles himself "Gent."

The Brat stands on the top of a step-ladder, dexterously posing the last wintry garland; and all we others are resting a momentwe and our coadjutors.

Ponting cannot face meals but sticks to his work; on the way to Port Chalmers I am told that he posed several groups before the cinematograph, though obliged repeatedly to retire to the ship's side.

'Twill pose your heaven-hunters; He talks now of the King, no other language, And with the King as he imagines, hourly.

"Somnia quae mentes ludunt volitantibus umbris, Nec delubra deum, nec ab aethere numina mittunt, Sed sibi quisque facit," &c. For that cause when Ptolemy, king of Egypt, had posed the seventy interpreters in order, and asked the nineteenth man what would make one sleep quietly in the night, he told him, "the best way was to have divine and celestial meditations, and to use honest actions in the daytime.

Tahitians were indifferent models, as they were not much interested in pictures, not seeing objects, as we do, and found posing irksome.

The figure in the picture, standing with uplifted glass and drunken pose at the head of the tablewith bestial, lust-worn face, disease-shrunken limbs, and dying, licentious eyes fixed upon the beautiful girl musicianmight easily have been Mr. Taine himself.

They understand better than the self-conscious, posing mass of mankind the weakness and the pettiness of human nature; but they also appreciate its other side.

But he was above feeling a certain exultation in the effect of his misery upon the dog-like, unreasoning affection of Patterson, nor could he entirely refrain from slightly posing his affliction before that sympathetic but melancholy man.

It may be argued that it was impossible to pose models, in other words, to appeal to living men and women, for the foreshortenings of falling or soaring shapes in that huge drift of human beings.

This question is too hard for bashfulness; And, father, now ye pose my modesty.

He had posed for more than thirty years to his parish, to his three wives, to his three children, and to himself, till he had become unconscious of his real thoughts, his real motives, his real likings and dislikings.

Non eravam partiti già da ello, Ch' i' vidi duo ghiacciati in una buca Si, che l'un capo a l'altro era capello: E come 'l pan per fame si manduca, Così 'l sovran li denti a l'altro pose Là've 'l cervel s'aggiunge con la nuca.

"You pose your opponent with an unanswerable question, and he in turn proposes several, thereby suggesting that there are things unknown, and that if you will push him to that realm you are equally involved.

It would have posed old Erra Pater to have found out any given Day in the year, to erect a scheme upongood Days, bad Days, were so shuffled together, to the confounding of all sober horoscopy.