 | Gertrude Buck, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - English language - 1899 - 312 pages
...pictures time has chilled it least. '' The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years...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... | |
 | 1899 - 576 pages
...beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Here is the head upon which all " the ends of the world...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... | |
 | Thomas Bird Mosher - Literature - 1900 - 496 pages
...magic, that the image was projected? The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years...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 - Aesthetics - 1900 - 276 pages
...magic, that the image was projected ? The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years...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... | |
 | Selwyn Brinton - Art - 1900 - 362 pages
...the face and hands of the figure, set in its ' marble chair, in that cirque of fantastic rocks. ... It is a beauty < wrought out from within upon the...thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. ' Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or " beautiful women of antiquity,... | |
 | Ferris Greenslet - 1903 - 192 pages
...on Leonardo Da Vinci's La Gioconda: "The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years...by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries [55] I WALTER PATER and exquisite passions* Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses... | |
 | Arthur Mahler, Carlos Blacker, William Albert Slater - Painting - 1905 - 340 pages
...Renaissance," says of this mystic creation: "The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years...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 Christopher Benson - 1906 - 266 pages
...it may here be given in full : — " The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years...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... | |
 | Carleton Eldredge Noyes - Aesthetics - 1907 - 304 pages
...description of Leonardo's Mona Lisa. The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years...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... | |
 | Selwyn Brinton - Art - 1907 - 136 pages
...the face and hands of the figure, set in its ' marble chair, in that cirque of fantastic rocks. ... It is a beauty ' wrought out from within upon the...thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. ' Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or ' beautiful women of antiquity,... | |
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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.... 
