The fourfold walls in breathing statues grace.
Addison in his Letter from Italy had called the Roman statues "breathing rocks."
[30] Addison's Letter from Italy:
Or teach their animated rocks to live.
And emperors in Parian marble frown.
[31] Milton, Par. Lost, i. 714:
Doric pillars overlaid
With golden architrave, nor did there want
Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven.—Wakefield.
[32] Dryden, Ovid's Met. book xii.:
An ample goblet stood of antique mould
And rough with figures of the rising gold.
Dryden, Æn. viii. 830:
And Roman triumphs rising on the gold.