Let us suppose that some work of Zeuxis or pheidias has been transported to their shores, and that they are compelled to acknowledge its excellence from its own point of view-its colouring true to nature, though not to their own type-its unveiled forms decorous, though not conforming to their own standard of decorum.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
If he has not been a Homer, a pheidias, or a Terpander, his creative sympathies have united all three; and in thus passing from the simple to the complex, he has obeyed the law of progress, though at the risk perhaps of appearing a smaller man."
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Even the gods of the Capitol are now honoured by an offering of crude bullion, not by the masterpieces of a pheidias or an Apelles.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill