He remained for a short time in the famous posture of the Colossus of Rhodes, vainly endeavoring to shake off the cigar-stumps and other little et ceteras which were clinging to him like cerements, uttering the while unintelligible oaths.

But when (still hardying more and more in his triumphs over our simplicity) he went on to affirm that he had actually sailed through the legs of the Colossus at Rhodes, it really became necessary to make a stand.

Mrs. Kennicot related, in his presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written Paradise Lost should write such poor Sonnets:' Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

This man, this great lump of power and success, standing like a colossus in his wonderful home, infuriated him.

These human figures are exactly alike, and represent the same personagea Colossus with swelling thews, and dressed in a robe of dignity.

Columbia: colossus on the Hudson.

He was a Phidias that could cut a Colossus out of a rock, but could not cut heads out of cherry-stones.

What he did was to pour into these forms the incomparable richness of a personality whose fire and brilliance and humour transcended all locality and all tradition, a personality which strode like a colossus over the formalism and correctness of his time.

Mostly Ben had time only for an occasional glimpse at the colossus above him.