Phidian
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When we find human forms suggesting a superhuman dignity, as in Watts' figures of Time and Death, or in the Phidian marbles, the type is there melting into the archetype.
From Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell
She had the Phidian breadth and the modern charm—that charm which troubles and disturbs, haunting the mind with vague, unsatisfied suggestions of something finer than is seen, something nobler than the gross physical envelope reveals.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
The Phidian Jupiter is lost to us, except in copies, but in the Belvedere Apollo we see how the sculptor could interpret the highest thought of the Hellenic mind.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
If she be silent, silence let it be; He who would bid her speak might sit and sue The deep-brow'd Phidian Jove to be untrue To his two thousand years' solemnity.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
But all was gentle and aristocratic In this our party; polish'd, smooth, and cold, As Phidian forms cut out of marble Attic.
From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
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