 | Shearjashub Spooner - 1853 - 336 strani
...execute my statue, I felt like a spoiled boy, who, after insisting upon riding on horseback, bawled aloud with fright, at finding himself in the saddle, so far from the ground I" Is it not a burning shame, that the most gifted artists of this great and glorious country should be... | |
 | Russell Lynes - 1982 - 552 strani
...happened, and he wrote from Florence to Dunlap : "When I went, the other morning, into the huge room in which I propose to execute my statue, I felt like...ground! I hope, however, that this will wear off." It did, but the sculpture was eight years in the making, and still another year passed before it reached... | |
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When I went, the other morning, into the huge room in which I propose to execute my statue, I felt like a spoilt boy, who, after insisting upon riding on horseback, bawls aloud with fright at finding himself in the saddle, so far from the ground! I hope,... 