 She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern...  Nineteenth Century and After - Página 1401890Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1895 - 722 páginas
...and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the...lineaments and tinged the eyelids and the hands." It were a worthless task to defend Mr Pater against the complaint that his style is his principal object... | |
 | 1880 - 930 páginas
...fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchant? ; and, as Lcda, was tho mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother...it has moulded the changing lineaments and tinged tho eyelids and hands." Mr. Pater is not only, in these things, the writer who carries the subtlety... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1873 - 258 páginas
...and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants; and, as Leda, was the...changing lineaments and tinged the eyelids and the hands. The fancy of a perpetual life, sweeping together ten thousand experiences, is an old one ; and modern... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Heaton - 1874 - 392 páginas
...and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the...changing lineaments and tinged the eyelids and the hands. The fancy of a perpetual life, sweeping together ten thousand experiences, is an old one ; and modern... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1876 - 542 páginas
...for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was mother of Helen of Troy, and, as S. Ann, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sounds of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1876 - 540 páginas
...for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was mother of Helen of Troy, and, as S. Ann, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sounds of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments... | |
 | William Sharp - 1882 - 474 páginas
...and lIMS been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fatten day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the...been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes. . . . — (WALTER PATER, The Eenaissance. While these are unmistakably prose passages they are far... | |
 | William Sharp - 1882 - 474 páginas
...seas, and keeps thtir fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with ^Eastern merehants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and,...been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes. . . . — (WALTER PATER, The Eenaissance. While these are unmistakably prose passages they are far... | |
 | 1885 - 566 páginas
...strange webs with eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anna, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her...changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands."i The dullest cannot but confess the eloquence of this criticism, its curiousness and subtlety.... | |
 | 1902 - 524 páginas
...arc a little weary . . . All ages and all races are etched and moulded in that face. ... As Leda, she was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary. . . . Certainly Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of the old fancy, the symbol of the modern... | |
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