 To me it is a most touching face; perhaps, of all faces that I know, the most so. Lonely there, painted as on vacancy, with the simple laurel wound round it; the deathless sorrow and pain, the known victory which is also deathless...  Constructive Rhetoric - Page 48by Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1896 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...attributed to Giotto, which, looking on it, you cannot help inclining to think genuine, whoever did it. To me it is a most touching face ; perhaps of all...; — significant of the whole history of Dante 1 I think it is the mournfulest face that ever was painted from reality ; an altogether tragic, heart-affecting... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 pages
...attributed to Giotto, which, looking on it, you cannot help inclining to think genuine, whoever did it. To me it is a most touching face ; perhaps of all faces that I know, the most so. Blank there, painted on vacancy, with the simple laurel wound round it ; the deathless sorrow and pain,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1842 - 414 pages
...attributed to Giotto, which, looking on it, you cannot help inclining . to think genuine, whoever did it. To me it is a most touching face ; perhaps of all...round it ; the deathless sorrow and pain, the known vie. tory which is also deathless ; — significant of the whole history of Dante ! I think it is the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 490 pages
...attributed to Giotto, which, looking on it, you cannot help inclining to think genuine, whoever did it. To me it is a most touching face; perhaps of all faces that I know, the most so. Lonely there, paintted as on vacancy, with the simple laurel wound round it ; the deathless sorrow and pain, the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 pages
...attributed to Giotto, which, looking on it, you cannot help inclining to think genuine, whoever did it. To me it is a most touching face; perhaps of all faces that I know, the most so. Lonely there, paintted as on vacancy, with the simple laurel wound round it; the deathless sorrow and pain, the known... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 238 pages
...me it is a most touching face; perhaps of all faces that I know, the most so. Lonely there, paintted as on vacancy, with the simple laurel wound round...deathless sorrow and pain, the known victory which is also deathless;—significant of the whole history of Dante! I think it is the mournfulest face that ever... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pages
...attributed to Giotto, which, looking on it, you cannot help inclining to think genuine, whoever did it. To me it is a most touching face ; perhaps of all...deathless ; — significant of the whole history of Dante ! I think it is the mournfullest face that ever was .painted- ' from reality ; an altogether tragic,... | |
 | Mrs. E. N. Gladding - 1858 - 258 pages
...says of Dante's portrait, applies to himself— his spirit face, as I conceive it. " To me, (he says,) it is a most touching face; perhaps of all faces that I know, the most so. I think it is the mournfullest face that was ever painted from reality ; an altogether tragic, heart-affecting... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 432 pages
...attributed to Giotto, which, looking on it, you cannot help inclining to think genuine, whoever did it. To me it is a most touching face ; perhaps, of all...deathless ; — significant of the whole history of Dante! I think it is the mournfulest face that ever was painted from reality; an altogether tragic, heart... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 264 pages
...attributed to Giotto, which, looking on it, you cannot help inclining to think genuine, whoever did it. To me it is a most touching face ; perhaps, of all...deathless ; — significant of the whole history of Dante ! I think it is the mournfulest face that ever was painted from reality ; an altogether tragic, heart-affecting... | |
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