...are like to be, for the rest of our Lives. — But to the Point? The Lines I have receiv'd are These: "Close to those Walls, where Folly holds her Throne...would take her down; "Where o'er the Gates, by his fam'd Father's Hand, "Great Gibber's brazen, brainless Brothers stand. &c. Why, really, Sir, this facetious...

...their realism — statues referred to in the well-known lines of Pope when speaking of Gibber's son — Where o'er the gates by his famed father's hand Great Gibber's brazen brainless brothers stand. From the above list of sculptors it is evident at a glance how much we owed to foreign art, and especially...