 ... 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 merchants: and, as Leda,...  Rough-hewn - Page 69by Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1895 - 722 pages
...strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to...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
...strange webs with Eastern merchant? ; and, as Lcda, was tho mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to...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... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1873 - 258 pages
...for strange webs with Eastern merchants; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to...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,... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Heaton - 1874 - 392 pages
...strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to...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
...strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has 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... | |
 | 1890 - 1080 pages
...strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to...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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