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" 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... "
Rough-hewn - Page 68
by Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 504 pages
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The Eagle, Volume 18

1895 - 722 pages
...spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. " She is older than the rocks among which she sits ;...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,...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 33

1880 - 930 pages
...Pagan •world, the sins of the Borgias. .Sho is older than the rocks amor; which she sits ; like tho vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of tho grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keep? their fallen day about her ; and trafficked...
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance

Walter Pater - 1873 - 258 pages
...its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias, She is older than the rocks among which she sits ;...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,...
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Leonardo Da Vinci and His Works: Consisting of a Life of Leonardo Da Vinci

Mrs. Charles Heaton - 1874 - 392 pages
...its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits ;...vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secret of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her ; and...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 1

Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1876 - 542 pages
...its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits;...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...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 1

Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1876 - 540 pages
...its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits ;...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...
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The Living Age, Volume 128

1876 - 844 pages
...its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits;...many times and learned the secrets of the grave ; and ha. been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their failen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs...
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Record and a Study

William Sharp - 1882 - 478 pages
...they came ? — (JOHN EUSKIN, Cloud Beauty. Modern Painters.} Hers [Lionardo da Vinci's La Gioconda] is the head upon which all " the ends of the world...rocks among which she sits; like the Vampire, she lIMS been dead many times, and learned the seerets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas,...
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Record and a Study

William Sharp - 1882 - 474 pages
...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...Vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the seerets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps thtir fallen day about her ; and...
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Record and a Study

William Sharp - 1882 - 474 pages
...ends of the world are come" and the eyelids are a little weary. . . . She is older than the roclcs among which she sits; like the Vampire, she has been...times, and learned the secrets of the grave ; and lIMS been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fatten day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs...
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