Word: nymph
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chorus after the Battle of Salamis" it would be difficult to find. Such a work is worth more than pages of description in the vividness with which it brings the old Greek life before us. A yet more original, though to us less pleasing work. is the "Hunting Nymph." Bracing herself on the hillside, she has let fly an arrow and is intently watching its sure course. The triumphant joy of the huntress animates every line of the figure. It was this statue, we believe, which attracted so much attention at the Salon of '85, where it received a well...
There is a very interesting exhibition of sculptures by Mr. John Donoghue in Horticultural Hall, Boston. Three statues are shown: "The Boxer," "Young Sophocles" and the "Hunting Nymph." John L. Sullivan stood as a model for "The Boxer" and this statue bids fair to become very celebrated...
...young girl whom he calls "la belle Irlandaise." "I am exceedingly lucky," he exclaims joyfully, "to have escaped the insensible Miss B. for now I have seen the finest creature that ever was formed, la belle Irlandaise. Figure to yourself a young lady just sixteen, formed like a Grecian nymph, with the sweetest countenance, full of sensibility, accomplished, with a Dublin education-her father with an estate of L1000 a year, and above L10,000 in ready money. From morning till night, I admire the charming Mary Anne. Upon my honor I was never so much in love; I never...
...adapted, and poorly adapted, from either the old or the new cover of Life, and the central figure, which shows a trace of originality does not strike us as having any connection with the paper. On the title page we find the motto of the paper "Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee jest and youthful jollity, quips and cranks and wanton wiles...
What care we for a nymph of stone...