 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 68by Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1913 - 586 pages
...marble chair in that cirque of fanlaslif rucks, as in some faint light under sea', I murmur to myself, 'She is older than the rocks among which she sits;...as Leda, was the mother . of Helen of Troy, and, as St. Anne, the Mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and... | |
 | Aleksandr Nikolaevich Volkov-Muromt︠s︡ev - 1913 - 522 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,... | |
 | Hardress O'Grady - 1913 - 150 pages
...its spiritual ambition and imaginary 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,... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1913 - 640 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 lyre and flute and... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 pages
...how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with its maladies has passed ! . . . 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,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1913 - 350 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;...day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Kastern merchants; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of... | |
 | Ernst August Lüdemann - 1913 - 310 pages
...marble chair in that cirque of fantastic rocks, as in some faint light under sea', I murmur to myself, 'She is older than the rocks among which she sits;...vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the sfcrets of the grave; aiid has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her: and... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - 1914 - 728 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,... | |
 | Ernst Paulus Bendz - 1914 - 126 pages
...passions, » and into it »the soul with all its maladies has passed. » »I,ike the vampire, » that woman »has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave. » The whole paragraph is supremely significant of the mode in which Pater looked upon Leonardo and... | |
 | Percy Waldron Long - 1915 - 156 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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