The art reader, prepared for supplementary reading in public and private schools, with illustrations of some of the masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture (1905)
Quinn, Patrick Edward, 1862-1926 · Boston, A. W. Elson & co. · leaf 118
uld hardly be self-inflicted. The swordon the basis is a restoration. The warrior has thrownhimself on his shield to die, and the blood from the fatalthrust may be seen faUing drop by drop. The statuedepicts the tragedy of violent death, and is full of pathos,without the display of painful or… … oo ^ Hudson Park Cia.ncli,66 LEROY STREET C. ^^ ^, ^ola !-• riNG DtP^ ^-^t THE COLOSSEUM 69 And his drooped head sinks gradually low —And through his side the last drops, ebbing slowFrom the red gash, fall heavy, one by one,Like the first of a thunder shower; and nowThe arena swims around him — he…
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