...description of the Mona Lisa, in which he envisions the mysterious figure as an enduring/emme/atale: She is older than the rocks among which she sits;...seas, and keeps their fallen day about her . . . and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with...

...in mind Pater's famous evocation of the Mona Lisa, which includes such far-fetched "descriptions" as "like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and she has been a diver in strange seas, and keeps their fallen day about her" (8o). The important point...

...among which she sits; like a vampire, she has been dead many times, and learncd the secrets ol'the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps...as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has heen to her hut as the sound of lyres and flutes,...

...which the soul with all its maladies has passed . . . the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome. . . . She is older than the rocks among which she sits;...secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas. . . . Certain Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of the old fancy, the symbol of the modern idea....

...how they would be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed. . . She is older than the rocks among which she sits;...secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas. . . It was often as much the persona of the artist - perceived as polymath, magus or Jean-Baptiste...

...rightful place, so long as its aesthetic creed was guaranteed. The Moiia Lisa represented culture itself. 'She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has ... learned the secrets of the grave . . . and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen ofTroy, and, as St...

...his 'house of pipes and reeds' are still 'blowing' over the plains523. Like Leonardo's Mona Lisa, who "has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave" (R, 125f. Quoted before), the strange figure of the "organ-builder", himself at one point narrowly...

...'house of pipes and reeds' are still 'blowing' over the plains 523 . Like Leonardo's Mona Lisa, who "has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave" (R, 125f. Quoted before), the strange figure of the "organ-builder", himself at one point narrowly...

...Verse, in ambivalently awef ul terms borrowed from Walter Pater, as a "symbol of the modern idea": "She is older than the rocks among which she sits;...Leda, / Was the mother of Helen of Troy, / And, as St Anne, / Was the mother of Mary; / And all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes...

...level-headed practicality, energy and ability. She was a rebel in her own way and highly independent. 'She is older than the rocks among which she sits;...deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her...' My Granny Made Me An Anarchist ON REFLECTION, I think it was probably my granny who made me an anarchist....