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No one body possesses everything, and almost everybody possesses some one thing worthy of imitation: only choose your models well; and in order to do so, choose by your ear more than by your eye. The best model is always that which is most universally allowed to be the best, though in strictness it may possibly not be so.
However, he sent her round one morning, and entering himself shortly after found her engaged in wiping the layers of dust from the casts and models. The colour of the dust never ceased to amaze her. 'It is like the hold of a Budmouth collier, she said, 'and the beautiful faces of these clay people are quite spoilt by it.
I thought of his Christ, and did not wonder that when he had turned his art to that divine representation, he should refuse to sculpture from classic models. "He who has sculptured a Christ cannot sculpture a Venus." Our hotel here is very beautiful. I think it must have been some palace, for it is adorned with fine statues, and walls of real marble.
"I did feel solemn, for if Johnny could not go there he would be badly off. Fortunately he was ten, and dear Mrs. Russell helped me, and those good people took him in though they were crowded. 'We cannot turn one away, said kind Mr. Parpatharges. "So there my boy is, as happy as a king with his little mates, learning all sorts of useful lessons and pretty plays. He models nicely in clay.
It was a case of Vee's being in town on a shoppin' orgie and my being invited to hunt her up about lunch time. "Let's see," she 'phoned, "suppose you meet me about 12:30 at the Maison Noir. You know, West Fifty-sixth. And if I'm having a dress fitted on the second floor just wait downstairs for me, will you, Torchy?" "In among all them young lady models?" says I. "Not a chance.
With regard to these models, Filippo was paid fifty lire and fifteen soldi for his, as we see from an order in the book of Migliore di Tommaso, dated October 3, 1419, whereas three hundred lire are entered as paid to Lorenzo Ghiberti for the labour and expense of his model, more in consequence of the friendship and favour that he enjoyed than of any profit or need that the building had of it.
She succeeded in resolving into the admirable harmony of a long existence that contradiction between the liberty conceded to her sex and the self-denial demanded of it by man as a duty. She was assuredly one of the most perfect models of that lady of high society whom the Romans in all the years of their long and tempestuous history never ceased to admire.
There were represented: the birch-bark canoe from Alaska a Norwegian steamship in miniature the bimba or log canoe from Africa the Bohemian propeller corials from British Guiana the Japanese pleasure-boat "Hoomaru" the padda boats from Ceylon the caique from Turkey; furthermore, models of Spanish war-vessels Malay boats Swedish ice-yachts folding boats from Canada Chinese war-ships barges from Burmah French torpedo boats characteristic coast-vessels from India Venetian gondolas Dutch coast sailing boats the caravels, Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta, exhibited by Genoa Siamese boats life-boats naptha launches and a great number of small craft shown by the United States.
But though portraits of actual individuals, the models from which they were made are in every case so characteristic, so closely in keeping with their surroundings, that they serve nevertheless as types, and the drawings in consequence make as direct an appeal to the stranger as to one who might happen to be familiar with the originals of them.
The Platonists solve this difficulty by boldly declaring that the universal ideas or forms are the real existents and the models of the things of sense. This is absurd. Aristotle's solution in the Metaphysics is likewise unsatisfactory. Our conception, however, of the Active Intellect enables us to solve this problem satisfactorily.
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