The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-11-21
timents with which this statue fills everyfeel

timents with which this statue fills everyfeel-
ing mind.
The idea is neither drawn from history
nor posey. 1t is the pure and elegant m
anation of the scalptor's own chastened fan
cy. Who can doubt that Mr.. Powers is a
poet, for his chisel produces the same effects
as the sweet flow of harmonious versef The
marble is as pure and spotless as the undriv
en- snow. Neither on the face or body is a
stain or speck 10 be seen. Executed with
the purity Of the mind that conceived il, no
drapery is necessary to suppress the gross
ness of unlicensed thoughts. It's very nudi-
ty is but an emblem of IFS purity; fills the
mind with the most refined emotions, and e.
nables US, as it were, to reach the god like
state of Adam, when he and the mother of
mankind walked nakedi in the garden without
shame. The contemplation of this statue
refines the taste, purifies the fancy, improves
the heart and e~leyates the SOUL. Flesh and
blood might give color and motion, but would
these animal elements add to the beauties of
this charming creation? Even Mr.. Adams
would not object TO property in such a slave,
either in the District or any Of the States
Alas! she will perhaps find a master on En-
glish ground.
POWERS EVE.-In his "Eye,n Mr..
Powers has executed a work different in cha
racter, but equal in beauty 10 his ssGrecian
Slave.n Between these statues, opinion is
almost equally divided. In truth they are
equally excellent, and persons prefer this or
that, as the subject of the one or the other
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er of mankind is represented by the artist as
We readily imagine her in appearance TO
have been. Her person, though symmetri-
cal, is larger than of a Venus or a modern
beauty. Her features, though regular and
beautiful, inspire respect and admiration ra-
Their than warm affection or ready love-
Perhaps, in our present corrupted state, our
spirits are not sufficiently pure nor our souls
sufficiently exalted TO be inspired with the
sentiment Of iGv.e by a being SO pure, so
Eaultless. SO divine as was Eve before the fall.
Formed and fashioned by the hands of God,
she was, however, as Adam describes her to
Raphael
-- so lovely fair,
That what seemed fair in all the world, seemed
now,
Mean, or in her summed up in her contained
And in Ter looks, which from time infused
Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before,
And into all things from her air inspires,
The spirit of love and amorous delight.
The appearance of Eve is described in
one of the most beautiful passages OF Para
disc lost, when Satan first beholds her and
Adam in the Garden of Eden. By the po-
ct and our sculptor she is alike portrayed as
of noble shape, tall, godiike, erect and clad
with the native honor of naked majesty. In
her divine looks shines the image of her
glorious Maker. Truth, wisdom, sanctitude
are mingled in her feature with s~ofiness and
attractive grace
She as a veil down to the slender waist
Her unadorned golden tresses wore
Dishevill'd, but in wanton ringlets waved
AS the vine curls her sendrils; which implied
Subsection, bu; req uired with gentle sway,
And BY her yielded, by him but received,
Yielded with coy submission. modest pride,
And sweet reluctant, amorous delay.
In the statue, 100, her parted hair falls in
flowing profusion all over her graceful neck,
shoulder. The full developmentof her per
son, indicates that she well might be the mo
Their of a nobler race than that of fallen man.
The same fortunate purity of marble; the
same characteristic chastity of idea; the
same graceful line of beauty; are observa-
bic in this as in the other statue. In her
left hand, which hangs carelessly by her
side, Eve holds two apples, and in her right
partially distended, contemplates another o.
The forbidden fruit. She has not made up
her mind to commit the fatal sin. Around
a column the serpent has iwined his Shiny
folds and the Arch Enemy of mankind Sc
cretly watches the workings of his. inferno
lies upon the mind of the woman. She con
templates with pleasure, and thinks that she
pefceives the virtues of the fruit, which
though admirable in appearance, was vel for
hidden to man. She exhibits a secret de
sire, which, though scarcely willing 10 &C
knowledge TO herself, she is yet unable tt
conceal from others, TO taste of the tree o
knowledge-of good and evil. That pecu
liar self complacency, that satisfied, We
doubling smile which a sophistry invented
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