 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 ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern...  How to Visit the Great Picture Galleries - Seite 53von Esther Singleton - 1911 - 492 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1895 - 722 Seiten
...antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty into which the soul with all its maladies had passed ? All the thoughts and experience of the world...strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her... | |
 | 1880 - 930 Seiten
...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 for strange webs with Eastern merchant? ; and, as Lcda, was tho mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ;... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1873 - 258 Seiten
...of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Eome, the reverie of the middle age with its spiritual ambition...strange webs with Eastern merchants; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Heaton - 1874 - 392 Seiten
...rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secret of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas,...strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her... | |
 | William Sharp - 1882 - 474 Seiten
...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 with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her... | |
 | 1885 - 566 Seiten
...maladies has passed ? All the thoughts and experiences of the world have etched and moulded these, in that which they have of power to refine and make...strange webs with eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anna, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1888 - 284 Seiten
...little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for K a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses...strange webs with Eastern merchants: and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her... | |
 | 1890 - 1080 Seiten
...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;...strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1895 - 220 Seiten
...the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she 15 has been dead many times, and learned the secrets...strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as St. Anne, 20 the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her... | |
 | George B. Rose - 1898 - 240 Seiten
...him very close to Leonardo, has best divined her meaning: " The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways...strange webs with Eastern merchants; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her... | |
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