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Example sentences for: grecian
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Napoléon added the Grecian columns facing the Pont de la Concorde, but the palace is more graceful seen from its entrance on the south side.
The baron was also toying with the idea of replacing the gracious red brick houses of the triangular place Dauphine with a neo-Grecian colonnaded square when, thankfully, he was forced out of office for juggling the books.
Burne-Jones' lovers seem always in freeze frame, like the frustrated couple in that Pre-Raphaelite touchstone, Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn": "Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss,/ Though winning near the goal."
Directly across from the Kumari Bahal stands the incongruous white Grecian facade of a palace wing that was built in 1908 by Prime Minister Chandra Shumshere, a Rana responsible for the Singha Durbar and many of the city’s neoclassical edifices.
When Keats looks at the painted figures and trees on the Grecian urn (in "Ode on a Grecian Urn"), he is not just happy that these apparitions will never fade, because they are art, and thus permanent; he is happy that they have never had to live, that they are not suffering: "Ah, happy, happy boughs!