Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world are come, and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions.... Rough-hewn - Page 68by Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1895 - 722 pages
...beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world are come, and the eye-lids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange... | |
| Walter Pater - 1873 - 258 pages
...beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange... | |
| 1874 - 618 pages
...beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world are come, and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange... | |
| William Sharp - 1882 - 474 pages
...they came ? — (JoiiK HUSKIN, Cloud Beauty. Modem Painters.) Ilcrs [Lionardo da Viuci's La Gioconda] is the head upon which all " the ends of the world...eyelids are a little weary. . . . She is older than the roclcs among which she sits; like the Vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets... | |
| William Sharp - 1882 - 474 pages
...Beauty. Modern Painters.) Hers [Lionardo da Vinci's La Gioconda} is the head iipon which all " thc ends of the world are come" and the eyelids are a little weary. . . . Siie is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the Vampire, she has been dead many times,... | |
| 1885 - 566 pages
...beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to •desire. Here is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by eell, of strange... | |
| 1902 - 524 pages
...suggest than in what they convey. Look on "La Gioconda" ; and then read Pater's description. "Hers is the head upon which 'all the ends of the world are come' and the eyelids arc a little weary . . . All ages and all races are etched and moulded in that face. ... As Leda, she... | |
| 1890 - 1080 pages
...of a thousand years man had come to desire;' and he answers me, ' Hers is the head upon which all <f the ends of the world are come," and the eyelids are a little weary.' And so the picture becomes more wonderful to us than it really is, and reveals to us a secret of which,... | |
| 1895 - 416 pages
...beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all ' the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange... | |
| Charles Sears Baldwin - 1895 - 212 pages
...beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all " the ends of the world are come," and the 1 From The Renaissance. * From Marius the Epicurean. 'From Imaginary Portraits. Printed by kind permission... | |
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