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whole frame; in the {ire of his eyes, the dis-
tention of his nostrils, and in the rapid motion
of his feet, yielding to the guidance of his rider,
or in the speeding of his course: they are,
therefore, in perfect unison with the life in
each. At this moment of their animation, they
appear to have been turned into stone by some
majestic power, and not created -iby the human
hand. The single head of the horse, in the
same collection, seems as if it had, by the same
iniiuence, been struck into marble, when he was
exerting all the energy of his motion.
"These admirable sculptures, which now adorn
our city, -are the union of Athenian genius and
philosophy, and illustrate my meaning respect-
ing the mental impression which is so essentially
to be given to works of -refined .-art. It was this
point which the Grecian philosophers wished to
impress on the minds of their sculptors, not to
follow their predecessors the Egyptians in
sculpture, who represented their iigures without
motion, although nearly perfect in giving to
them the external form. ' It is the passions,'
said they, ' with which man is endowed, that
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