Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 204
subjected the force createdin opposition to her, to her laws, made it subservient to her designs.Blind impetuosity is converted into regulated activity under theguidance of wisdom. GRECIAN SCULPTURE. 175 meaning of which we could not even guess withoutthe aid of history. At the extreme end of the… … Fig. 39.—The Parcce. (From the Parthenon.) that it was dedicated to the Muses. This admirablestatue, doubtless, owed the good fortune of beingbetter preserved than any other of the Parthenonto its well-sheltered position. Had Michael Angeloknown it, he would doubtless have called it, as wellas the…
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