New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-06
once hv.d and suffered, snned and wrestled wrough.
and conquered here on this earth even "a we do
They are voiceless all and yet they speak to with

They are yoceless all and yet they speak to with
strange eoquenee and We look upon the impress OF
,teir Mortal ineai1sn's, strange thrill OF awe comes
over Us. How peaceful are the mighty ones How
tie hcroic souls that nodded TIE world to their
will They look Up into the face OF Time with u
placid superiority as knowing that he cannot touch
them. There is grand old Homer, majestic as Uod
You that he would have been king among men
il his lot had been cast in our world o To-day
IL is pleasant 10 what of brow y IS whence
ro.y leapt. aid which wears such sn immortal
crown. Lofty and wOiahppcd Is he J.. Yen see that
lie il Ike us IN many things. Suffering ani endurance
lave wrought their lines that brow, AMI Love has
lain it, glory there. rs written over Ike msP ci
thought. Those nostTils speak OF e,cic spirit;
tLev could have dilated like those ot war-horse
surfing battle. And lis mouth, how me IL ! There
Is massive strength in the lower part OF the face.
We are in the Greek Court and among IL antique
nor,r,its as YOU are aware. This is Aristides
named the Just" You do not wonder AZ IT, when
you lock AZ his moral development, and what natural
crown it forms 10 bis head. With what a modest
bravery he bears himself.
Ii related that in the representation OF The trag
e6ies of Eschylus sentence was spoken III iayor oi
moral goodness The eyes of the audience turned IN
voluntarily and Immediately from the actor TO Arts,
tides And here we see him as he lived, as he would
have sat with the eyes of that audience upon nln'
thinking of the beautiful sentiment and not OF the
offered homage. When you remember that Socrates
was said 10 resemble the God Silanus, his face being
heavy ard ugly and that MS brow WAS square. large
ard LOFTY. ven have little difficulty in recognizing the
Old philosopher of Athens. He was wont to say tha1
Lis face great argument IN favor oil Ih,s'oe
ucmy for that by nature he had all the bad passions
indicated by his features but wisdom had taught him
10 sutdue them. What genuine physiognomists ana
phenoogists the Greek scu ptors and painters were
Possibly they knew nothing OF these theories as sell
enc,s but they did practically They initiated Nature
closely that you may read the characters me! repre-
cent By Ihysognomy and Phrenology alone lobe.
sure they generally represent characters mat stand
out as absolute types their remarkable qualities throw
Ing ,he into relief for your manipulation like letters
cut 10 he read by the blind. They don't deal in those
smooth surfaced eXpressoness ncnentities who have
70 character indicated because they have 70 in
doate and whom you generally find denying that there
is any truth in either Phrenoogy or Ply sIognomy.
The Greeks recognized this truth, that " h'te'er Is
done in tie heart shall be written ON the house-cps
For want of this what ludicrous MISTAKES some OF
our modern artists commit and we often find warriors
rainted who could have not killed mouse, and aec-
lien REPRESENTED with absolute want OF DeneVoence
The anatomy OF their does not include conorma-
ton of brain. But you don't want to hear NE taIh
v bile we stand in the presence OF the orator Demos
themes Heis represented here as hardheadcd man.
His brow il deep, tad, and full of contemplation y
soul Of fire existed beneath that rough Intense eAte-
rior You nay see that he had no Language 10 spare
no lavish ornament of ideas; he was severely SIMPLE,
but intensely vehement and irresistible. He had large
perseverance,. Very different is Percles. lie han u
larger soul, hind Of vaster scope. mere Is a ho'
bier dignity q more colossal ealnness than III Demos
themes This was the man whose presence was 80
Grand and who lad such sutdued sense 81 power
about him that his Oraory did not need the eloquence
Of action; aud looking him. you do moi marvel u
il shoIId have been So. And this is bis mistress As
pasta. woman of ripe beauty and rare ntellectuai
pover A lover might well take eloquence from the
touch OF her lips What ieasts fit for gods were held
al N. r house , 800 years ago. Wise Old socrates,
and merry Alcibades Sophocles and Euripides Plato
ard Itidias, were Of the company that gathered To-
eeer in the coo of the evening at the banquet OF W.T.
and vine, 3nd irut, provided by tue i"H AsPasa o'
ter immortal guests.
We mist pass on leaving Phocau The Good,
Uioeenes the Cynic Epcurus the ancient Sec'iarlst
AIcibaides whom We met ut Aspasias and learned
lycurgus and glance in on the Roman portraits
This is the fearful lcentous, bloody Nero, ne VINO
perpetrat.d 80 much sanuinary atrocy IN 50 short
fine-he died at 81. Look re the back oi his mead
He must have been a madman from FURIOUS ils'
There is IO;hing to control the ieroct! OF MS ala
instincts; no moral government, no spIrtualiLing
deality: he is one mass Of burning fever bloody cru
,lty and brutal lust. One can well imagine what ah
r. rusl light those eyes must have emitted, how sod
den and red they rolled in their fury lac hc"heeis
of q battle Chpriot rolling III blood Ana mere Is
fitting compai.on Vaera Messann, cruel as Murder,
and iecheruus as Lust. these two are perhaps en-
titled 10 the most notorious preemnence IN History
Chamber Of Horrors. a strange progeny was that oil
old hCme, constituting the blacklist Criminals ana the
suh.imest characters the world has seen. mere toi
mstanceis Marcus Aureus OF the best aud nobest
Princes all antiquity looking element, generous
tl,uehtiul and magnanimous, steady rebuke TO sur
rounding vices aud kindly encouragement 10 strug
ding virtues. We cannot leave the Roman Court
witLout glance at of the mgbtiest OF ITS mighty
ones julius Caesar. He 10 power aud q wonder
forever.
There s a grand clear and piercing intellect SYM
boiled IL that bead How subtle and luminous the
glance of il must have been. That face should have
lool ed daphOnOue with spirit even rs though we
.la. fIrouuh the sheath and TO what