The Olympian Jove of Phidias lives perhaps in the Moses of Michael Angelo, great as was his original genius, even as the Venus of Praxiteles may have been reproduced in Powers's Greek Slave.

She herself lay all along, under a canopy of cloth of gold, dressed as Venus in a picture, and beautiful young boys, like painted cupids, stood on each side to fan her.

We looked at Venus with a power of 150, but it was not good.

But something was wanting; Psyche felt that, and could have taken her Venus by the dimpled shoulders, and given her a hearty shake, if that would have put strength and spirit into the lifeless face.

Mr. Garden desired to see some of his other poems; and doubting whether they were his own productions, requested him to translate the invocation to Venus at the opening of Lucretius, which Beattie did in such a manner as to remove his incredulity.

She stood before her work eying it intently for several minutes; then, with an expression of great contempt for the whole thing, she suddenly tilted her cherished Venus on to the floor, gave the classical face a finishing crunch, and put on her hat in a decisive manner, saying briefly to the dismayed damsels, "Good-by, girls; I shan't come any more, for I'm going to work at home hereafter.

Or has some handsomer Adonis won your Venus from you?

" St. Christopher, and a company of fictitious saints, Venus to the Lady of Loretto.

They also had observed the courses of the planets, and could explain the phenomena of the stations and retrogradations; and it is asserted too that they regarded Mercury and Venus as satellites of the sun.

Not a cloud to be seen the whole day and the air was perfectly clear, so that we had every advantage we could desire in observing the whole passage of the Planet Venus over the Sun's Disk.

When we had satiated our eyes with this spectacle, or rather when I remembered that we could spare no more time to this, the most interesting exhibition of the evening, a turn of the machinery brought Venus under view.

(In your love affairs you were never severe, But your friendship was always sure and sincere; The humors of Venus for those who desired, For your friends, in your heart, solid virtues conspired;

But he probably did something of that kind, for as he had already vowed his temple to Venus Genetrix he could hardly have remained eight days at Lilybaeum so near the shrine of Aeneas' Venus without some act of filial devotion.

Il me demanda qui j'étois, et ce que je venois faire à Damas; et, sur ma réponse que j'étois Français, venu en pélerinage à Jérusalem, il dit qu'on avoit tort de me retenir, et que je pouvois partir quand il me plairoit.

It is said of the red maple that 'it stands among the occupants of the forest like Venus among the planetsthe brightest in the midst of brightness and the most beautiful in a constellation of beauty,'" "Is there such a thing as a silver tree?" asked Clara.

Thou madst me sullen first, and thou Jove, proud; Thou bloody minded; he a Puritan: Thou Venus madst me love all that I saw, And Hermes to deceive all that I love;

the Moon from Transit Observations of (Memoirs) Venus near her inferior conjunction. 1829 Nov. 16 On a Correction requisite to be applied Camb.

On the occasion of his marrying Julia, Faustina, the wife of Marcus, prepared their bedchamber in the temple of Venus opposite the palace; and once, when he was asleep, water gushed from his hand as from a spring; and when he was governor of Lugdunum, the whole Roman domain approached and greeted him,all this in dreams, I mean.

The last object I saw was Saccharissa, looking more like a Hottentot Venus than ever, waving her handkerchief and kissing her hand to me.

Madame, il est vrai qu'il est venu avec moi; mais c'est madame Argante... Mme.