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" Or in what other land they hap to be — Which drives the belly close beneath the chin: My beard turns up to heaven; my nape falls in, Fixed on my spine: my breast-bone visibly Grows like a harp: a rich embroidery Bedews my face from brush-drops thick... "
The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the ... - Page 518
by Ludwig Freiherr von Pastor - 1901
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The Antefix Papers: Papers on Art Educational Subjects, Read at the Weekly ...

Art - 1875 - 286 pages
...original he made a sketch of himself in the position described in the sonnet: — My loins into my paunch like levers grind ; My buttock like a crupper bears...and long; behind By bending it becomes more taut and straight. Backward I bend me like a Syrian bow, Whence false and quaint I know, Must be the fruit of...
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Renaissance in Italy: The fine arts; 1877

John Addington Symonds - Art, Italian - 1877 - 568 pages
...a harp : a rich embroidery Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin. My loins into my paunch like levers grind ; My buttock like a crupper bears...behind, By bending it becomes more taut and strait ; Backward I strain me like a Syrian bow : Whence false and quaint, I know, Must be the fruit of squinting...
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Renaissance in Italy: The Fine Arts

John Addington Symonds - Art - 1882 - 588 pages
...a harp : a rich embroidery Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin. My loins into my paunch like levers grind ; My buttock like a crupper bears...behind, By bending it becomes more taut and strait ; Backward I strain me like a Syrian bow : Whence false and quaint, I know, Must be the fruit of squinting...
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Renaissance in Italy: The Fine Arts

John Addington Symonds - Art, Italian - 1883 - 574 pages
...like a harp: a rich embroidery Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin. My loins into my paunch like levers grind; My buttock like a crupper bears...behind, By bending it becomes more taut and strait; Backward I strain me like a Syrian bow: Whence false and quaint, I know, Must be the fruit of squinting...
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Selected Poems from Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti - 1885 - 218 pages
...a harp : a rich embroidery Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin. My loins into my paunch like levers grind : My buttock like a crupper bears...to and fro ; In front my skin grows loose and long ; bchind, By bending it becomes more taut and strait ; Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow : Whence...
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Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and ..., Volume 4

Giorgio Vasari - Art - 1896 - 470 pages
...a harp : a rich embroidery Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin : My loins into my paunch like levers grind : My buttock like a crupper bears...to and fro ; In front my skin grows loose and long ; By bending it becomes more taut and strait behind, Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow : Whence...
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The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti - Italian poetry - 1897 - 120 pages
...thick and thin. My loins into my paunch like levers grind : My buttock like a crupper bears my weight j My feet unguided wander to and fro ; In front my skin...long ; behind, By bending it becomes more taut and straight ; Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow : Whence false and quaint, I know, Must be the fruit...
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Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and ..., Volume 4

Giorgio Vasari - Art - 1897 - 488 pages
...like a harp: a rich embroidery Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin: My loins into my paunch like levers grind : My buttock like a crupper bears my weight; My feet nnguided wander to and fro ; In front my skin grows loose and long; By bending it becomes more taut...
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Renaissance in Italy: The Fine Arts, Volume 3

John Addington Symonds - Art, Italian - 1898 - 438 pages
...a harp : a rich embroidery Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin. My loins into my paunch like levers grind ; My buttock like a crupper bears my weight ; My feet unguided wander to and fro ; Guasti, p. 158. In front my skin grows loose and long ; behind, By bending it becomes more taut and...
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The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti - 1901 - 126 pages
...like a harp: a rich embroidery Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin. My loins into my paunch like levers grind : My buttock like a crupper bears...and long; behind By bending it becomes more taut and straight; Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow: Whence false and quaint, I know, Must be the fruit...
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