 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.  Sketches of Great Painters - Seite 54von Edwin Watts Chubb - 1915 - 263 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Burke - 1884 - 694 Seiten
...feel that the last word has been said about the Gioconda with the unfathomable smile. " It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit,...thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions." If Lady Eastlake never rises to any great firmness or fineness of touch in matter of criticism, there... | |
 | 1895 - 722 Seiten
...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,...thoughts, and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1873 - 258 Seiten
...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,...thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and... | |
 | 1874 - 618 Seiten
...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,...thoughts, and fantastic reveries, and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Heaton - 1874 - 392 Seiten
...upon which all ' the ends of the earth are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit,...thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1876 - 540 Seiten
...head upon which all the ends of the world have, come, and the eyes are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, — the deposit,...thoughts, and fantastic reveries, and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment by one of those volute Greek goddesses, or beautiful women of antiquity, and how... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1876 - 542 Seiten
...come, and the eyes 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. Set it for a moment by one of those volute Greek goddesses, or beautiful women of antiquity, and how... | |
 | 1876 - 844 Seiten
...head upon which all the ends of the world have come, and the eyes are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, — the deposit, little cell by cell, of stringe thoughts, and fantastic reveries, and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment by one of those... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1877 - 518 Seiten
...upon which all 'the ends of the earth are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit,...thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions." Perhaps the words erf the ancient critic, Felibien, express the matter still better : " It has so much... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1878 - 164 Seiten
...upon which all 'the ends of the earth are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit,...thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions." Perhaps the words of the ancient critic, Felibien, express the matter still better : " It has so much... | |
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