Rydberg, Viktor, 1828-1895 · New York, Putnam · leaf 235
absorbed in himself, and nevertheless roguish ; resolute,yet floating in spaces where forebodings and dreams areall, and the will is nothing. The formation of his face isHellenic, but diverges from the Hellenic type. Hisfigure is fine, but not faultless, for one shoulder is higherthan the other ;… … ANTIQUE STATUES. 189 same, at the first glance recognizable, in changing forms,as hero or as god—now he is Agathodaemon, or Gany-mede, or Hercules; now Dionysus, Hermes or Apollo;so that beneath his exterior, we might imagine the spiritof the universe, effulgence of the first-created light,…
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