 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 302 oldal
...said Miriam, " show me the new statue which you asked me hither to see." CHAPTER XIV. CLEOPATRA. " MT new statue !" said Kenyon, who had positively forgotten...draped in their own beauty. But as for Mr. Gibson's coloured Venuses (stained, I believe, with tobacco-juice), and all other nudities of today, I really... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 302 oldal
...hither to see." CHAPTER XIV. CLEOPATRA. •" MT new statue !" said Kenyon, who had positively fcrgotten it in the thought of Hilda ; " here it is under this...draped in their own beauty. But as for Mr. Gibson's coloured Venuses (stained, I believe, with tobacco-juice), and all other nudities of today, I really... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 oldal
...some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologise for a lack of decent clothing. I am weary, even more...draped in their own beauty. But as for Mr. Gibson's coloured Venuses (stained, I believe, with tobacco-juice), and all other nudities of to-day, I really... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1880 - 268 oldal
...now," said Miriam, " show me the new statue which you asked me hither to see." CHAPTEE XIV. CLEOPATEA. new statue ! " said Kenyon, who had positively forgotten...An old Greek sculptor, no doubt, found his models iu the open sunshine, and among pure and princely maidens, and thus the nude statues of antiquity are... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1900 - 350 oldal
...now," said Miriam, "show me the statue which you asked me hither to see." 167 CHAPTER XIV CLEOPATRA MY new statue ! " said Kenyon, who had positively forgotten...draped in their own beauty. But as for Mr. Gibson's 168 colored Venuses (stained, I believe, with tobacco juice), and all other nudities of to-day, I really... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1983 - 1308 oldal
...statue, which you asked me hither to see." XIV Cleopatra My NEW STATUE!" said Kenyon, who had positive!}' р 0 } 2 coloured Venuses, (stained, I believe, with tobacco-juice,) and all other nudities of to-day, I really... | |
 | John L. Idol, Buford Jones - 1994 - 568 oldal
...some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologise for a lack of decent clothing. I am weary, even more...draped in their own beauty. But as for Mr. Gibson's coloured Venuses (stained, I believe, with tobacco- juice), and all other nudities of to-day, I really... | |
 | Luigi Barzini - 1996 - 388 oldal
...human being in existence. An artist, therefore, cannot sculpture nudity with a pure heart, if only he is compelled to steal guilty glimpses at hired...inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances.' CHAPTER THREE THE FATAL CHARM OF ITALY WHAT THEN is this fatal spell of Italy? Sometimes it seems almost... | |
 | Richard E. Mezo - 1999 - 125 oldal
...and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. . . . Nowadays people are as good as born in their clothes,...inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances." (VI, 149) This speech does not seem so much prudery as a call for honesty. Miriam recognizes that nothing... | |
 | Richard H. Millington - 2004 - 314 oldal
...concerning the voyeurism of art that is picked up as well in Miriam's statement that "an artist . . . cannot sculpture nudity with a pure heart, if only...compelled to steal guilty glimpses at hired models" [iv: 11l)),to Miriam's more directly flirtatious, seductive, request to see his ears, or, rather, his... | |
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Not a nude figure, I hope!" observed Miriam. "Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. I am weary,... 
