 | Gert Schiff - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 390 pages
...excruciating pains: these however, I say, exert not themselves with violence, either in the face or gesture. He pierces not heaven, like the Laocoon of Virgil; his mouth is rather opened to discharge an anxious overloaded groan, as Sadoleto says;22 the struggling body and the supporting mind... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - Art - 1999 - 468 pages
...and Sculpture of the Greeks" in G. Schiff, ed., German Essays on Art History (New York, 1988), 12: "He pierces not heaven, like the Laocoon of Virgil; his mouth is rather opened to discharge an anxious overloaded groan, as Sadoleto says; the struggling body and the supporting mind... | |
 | Joanne Morra, Marquard Smith - Art - 2006 - 376 pages
...excruciating pains: these however, I say, exert not themselves with violence, either in the face or gesture. He pierces not heaven, like the Laocoon of Virgil; his mouth is rather opened to discharge an anxious overloaded groan, as Sadoleto says; the struggling body and the supporting mind... | |
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Pangs piercing every muscle, every labouring nerve; pangs which we almost feel ourselves, while we consider — not the face, nor the most expressive parts — only the belly contracted by excruciating pains: these however, I say, exert not themselves... 