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Updated: May 29, 2025

We were under Mr. Silshee's guidance for the day, . . . . and first we looked at the sculpture, which is composed chiefly of casts or copies of the most famous statues of all ages, and likewise of those crumbs and little fragments which have fallen from Time's jaw, and half-picked bones, as it were, that have been gathered up from spots where he has feasted full, torsos, heads and broken limbs, some of them half worn away, as if they had been rolled over and over in the sea.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.

We were under Mr. Silshee's guidance for the day, . . . . and first we looked at the sculpture, which is composed chiefly of casts or copies of the most famous statues of all ages, and likewise of those crumbs and little fragments which have fallen from Time's jaw, and half-picked bones, as it were, that have been gathered up from spots where he has feasted full, torsos, heads and broken limbs, some of them half worn away, as if they had been rolled over and over in the sea.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete