 In short, so many and so marvellous are the varieties of divers shapes on every hand, that we are more tempted to read in the marble than in our books, and to spend the whole day in wondering at these things rather than in meditating the law of God. For...  Art and Experienceedited by - 2003 - 202 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | George Gordon Coulton - Literature, Medieval - 1910 - 782 pages
...bears the hinder quarters of a horse. In short, so many and so marvellous are the varieties of divers shapes on every hand, that we are more tempted to...marble than in our books, and to spend the whole day in wondering at these things rather than in meditating the law of God. For God's sake, if men are not... | |
 | George Gordon Coulton - Architecture, Gothic - 1928 - 708 pages
...bears the hind quarters of a horse. In short, so many and so marvellous are the varieties 574 of divers shapes on every hand, that we are more tempted to...marble than in our books, and to spend the whole day in wondering at these things rather than in meditating the law of God. For God's sake, if men are not... | |
 | Robert G. Calkins - Architecture - 1985 - 348 pages
...beast bears the hindquarters of a horse. In short, so many and so marvelous are the varieties of divers shapes on every hand, that we are more tempted to...marble than in our books, and to spend the whole day in wondering at these things rather than in meditating the law of God. For God's sake if men are not... | |
 | A. P. Kazhdan, Ann Wharton Epstein - Art - 1990 - 348 pages
...comeliness, that comely deformity? ... In short, so many and so marvelous are the varieties of diverse shapes on every hand, that we are more tempted to read in the marble than in our books. . . . (PL 182.914-16) The marvelous monstrosities of the West express a faith in unknowable, suprarational... | |
 | Caecilia Davis-Weyer (red.), Medieval Academy of America - Art - 1986 - 196 pages
...bears the hinder quarters of a horse. In short, so many and so marvellous are the varieties of divers shapes on every hand, that we are more tempted to...marble than in our books, and to spend the whole day in wondering at these things rather than in meditating the law of God. For God's sake, if men are not... | |
 | Charles Reginald Dodwell - Art - 1993 - 484 pages
...comeliness than veneration for his sanctity ... so many and so marvellous are the varieties of divers shapes on every hand, that we are more tempted to...marble than in our books, and to spend the whole day in wondering at these things rather than in meditating the law of God.'" In the fourth century, St... | |
 | John Kleiner - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 224 pages
...beast bears the hinder parts of a horse. In short so many and so marvelous are the varieties of divers shapes on every hand, that we are more tempted to...marble than in our books, and to spend the whole day in wondering at these things rather than in meditating on the law of God. For God's sake, if men are... | |
 | Richard Viladesau - Religion - 1999 - 311 pages
...those hunters winding their horns. ... In short, so many and so marvelous are the varieties of divers shapes on every hand, that we are more tempted to...marble than in our books, and to spend the whole day in wondering at these things rather than in meditating the law of God. For God's sake, if men are not... | |
 | Frank Burch Brown - Religion - 2000 - 333 pages
...knights, those hunters winding their horns? ... So many and so marvellous are the varieties of divers shapes on every hand, that we are more tempted to...marble than in our books, and to spend the whole day in wondering at these things rather than in meditating [on] the law of God. For God's sake, if men... | |
 | Carlo Ginzburg - History - 2001 - 310 pages
...behind it, or a horned beast bears the hind-quarters of a horse. In short, so many and so marvellous are the varieties of shapes on every hand, that we...the whole day wondering at these things rather than meditating on the law of God. For God's sake, if men are not ashamed of these follies, why at least... | |
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