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...general style of the old Scandinavian (and Celtic) drinking horns of the eighth and ninth centuries. The horn is about four inches in diameter at the largest part, gracefully shaped, the ornamentation being of frosted, smooth-polished, oxidized, and hammered surfaces, with a broad band of bas-relief near the top. The bas-relief represents action and attitudes of riding a race. The whole is surmounted by a cap or cover of elegant design, bearing a winged wheel flying through bronzed silver dust...
Although it is not stated what the result of the lottery was, we can nevertheless imagine the immense state of excitement that prevailed among the litterateurs and bas-bleus of the period...
...very charming gentleman, named Mr. Poco, who told me all about the students, and a good many college anecdotes. Pretty soon we came to the Port, where he said the Freshmen, after taking their big Bass further up the river, came nightly to fish for striped Bas, and to shoot ducks. I did not see any water, but suppose I was on the wrong side...
...begin with classic times, the hardy barbarian, who finally overcame the civilization of the antique world, is easily distinguished from his elegant enemies, in the bas-reliefs of imperial Rome, by the loose and baggy garment which hangs about and yet separates the lower limbs, and which is unquestionably the direct ancestor of the modern trousers. When the artist of the days of the Antonines desired to represent a wretched being, born and bred without the pale of a civilized existence, he accomplished his end, at once with ease and with certainty, by his treatment of the legs...
...have we neglected Ruskin's art theories. One of us - a man of true philosophic and artistic feeling - has produced a frying-pan, ornamented with the most aesthetic and subtle designs in bas-relief...