| 1895 - 722 pages
...diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen...flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments and tinged the eyelids and the hands." It were a worthless task to... | |
| 1880 - 930 pages
...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...flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments and tinged tho eyelids and hands." Mr. Pater is not only, in these... | |
| Mrs. Charles Heaton - 1874 - 392 pages
...diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen...flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments and tinged the eyelids and the hands. The fancy of a perpetual life,... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1876 - 540 pages
...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 - 542 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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...flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands."i The dullest cannot but confess... | |
| 1902 - 524 pages
...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... | |
| 1890 - 1080 pages
...diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen...flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.' And I say to my friend, ' The... | |
| Charles Sears Baldwin - 1895 - 216 pages
...strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as St. Anne, 20 the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her...flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands. The fancy of a perpetual life,... | |
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