Bayard Taylor Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Bayard Taylor quotes and sayings page 2 (journalist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 38 we have.
“So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.”
“True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.”
“I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.”
“I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.”
“Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.”
“I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.”
“So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.”
“My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.”
“The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.”
“The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.”
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