 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 23 wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite...  Current Opinion - Página 521906Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1895 - 722 páginas
...half serious, half wanton expression of the face and body. " The presence that thus so strangely rose beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world are come, and the eye-lids... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Heaton - 1874 - 392 páginas
...and as by stroke of magic, that the image was projected ? The presence that thus so strangely rose beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all ' the ends of the earth are come,' and the... | |
 | 1874 - 614 páginas
...La Gioconda ' is a good specimen of this epicene style : — ' The presence that so strangely rose beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world are come, and the eyelids... | |
 | 1876 - 844 páginas
...thus so strangely rose beside the waters in expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the 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,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1876 - 542 páginas
...cirque of fantastic rocks as in some faint light under sea. ' The presence that thus so strangely rose beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world have come, and the eyes... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1876 - 540 páginas
...cirque of fantastic rocks as in some faint light under sea. ' The presence that thus so strangely rose beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world have, come, and the eyes... | |
 | William Sharp - 1882 - 474 páginas
...they came ? — (JoiiK HUSKIN, Cloud Beauty. Modem Painters.) Ilcrs [Lionardo da Viuci's La Gioconda] is the head upon which all " the ends of the world are come" and the eyelids are a little weary. . . . She is older than the roclcs among which she sits; like the Vampire, she has been dead many times,... | |
 | William Sharp - 1882 - 474 páginas
...Beauty. Modern Painters.) Hers [Lionardo da Vinci's La Gioconda} is the head iipon which all " thc ends of the world are come" and the eyelids are a little weary. . . . Siie is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the Vampire, she has been dead many times,... | |
 | 1902 - 524 páginas
...what they suggest than in what they convey. Look on "La Gioconda" ; and then read Pater's description. "Hers is the head upon which 'all the ends of the world are come' and the eyelids arc a little weary . . . All ages and all races are etched and moulded in that face. ... As Leda, she... | |
 | 1885 - 566 páginas
...Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Monna Lisa, the famous " Giaconda " :— "The presence that thus rose so strangely 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 are come,' and the... | |
| |
