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Example sentences for: grecian
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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!
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.
And that goes for all you chicken-shit mugs with your Aqua Velva shaves and your Grecian Formula comb-overs.
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.