day was conducted through the Ceramicus and principal streets of Athens, till it had made the circuit of the Acropolis. The peplus was then carried to the Parthenon, and consecrated to Minerva.—See Chandler's Travels, Stuart's Athens, &c.
Note 37, page 42, line 13.
Though with rich gold and massy sculpture graced.
The gilding amidst the ruins of Persepolis is still, according to Winckelmann, in high preservation.
Note 38, page 46, line 18.
There in each wreck imperishably glows.
"In the most broken fragment the same great principle of life can be proved to exist, as in the most perfect figure," is one of the observations of Mr. Haydon on the Elgin Marbles.
Note 39, page 47, line 11.
Art unobtrusive there ennobles form.
"Every thing here breathes life, with a veracity, with an exquisite knowledge of art, but without the least ostentation or parade of it, which is concealed by consummate and masterly skill."—Canova's Letter to the Earl of Elgin.
Note 40, page 47, line 13.
There e'en the steed, with bold expression warm.
Mr. West, after expressing his admiration of the horse's head in Lord Elgin's collection of Athenian sculpture, thus proceeds: "We feel the same when we view the young equestrian Athenians, and in observing them we are insensibly carried on with the impression, that they and their horses actually existed, as we see them, at the instant when they were converted into marble."—West's Second Letter to Lord Elgin.
