 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1832 - 358 pages
...most effectual patrons of art in those days, desired to sit for his portrait ; and the name of Romney was again heard pronounced in the same breath with...illustration of piety — a sermon addressed to the eyes : it was equal to Guido in grace, and superior in expression. Her long flowing hair floating loosely... | |
 | Edward Everett - Education - 1835 - 40 pages
...take him by the hand ; let her Come but keep her wonted state, With even step, and musing gate, And looks commercing with the skies, Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes ; — Let her lead him to the mount of vision; let her turn her heaven-piercing tube to the sparkling... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 654 pages
...take him by the hand ; let her Come, but keep her wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes: — Let her lead him to the mount of vision ; let her turn her heavenpiercing tube to the sparkling... | |
 | 1836 - 590 pages
...or the weakness of transport, but keeps her ' wonted ' state, ' With easy step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes'; — As if, like ' divinest Melancholy, held in holy passion still,' she could 'forget herself to marble'... | |
 | Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 440 pages
...take him by the hand ; let her " Come, but keep her wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes ;" let her lead him to the mount of observation ; let her turn her heaven-piercing tube to the sparkling... | |
 | George Merriam - Reader (Elementary) - 1841 - 308 pages
...take him by the hand; let her " Come but keep her wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes." 8. Let her lead him to the mount of vision ; let her turn her heaven-piercing tube to the sparkling... | |
 | Patrick Welwood, John Anderson - Covenanters - 1841 - 334 pages
...herself or her mother I said indeed nothing respecting it ; but as I gazed on her sweet face — " Her looks commercing with the skies, * Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes" — or listened to the music of her voice — I inwardly rejoiced. Seated once more by the fireside... | |
 | Picture worship - 1846 - 144 pages
...the " arch-angelic extasy" of her who, with her mind filled with heavenly visions, sits apart — " With looks commercing with the skies, Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes ?" Gaius. No ; not, at least, if I can be sure that the " rapture" and the " extasy" are really " holy"... | |
 | William Stirling Maxwell - Art - 1848 - 486 pages
...Virgin of the Conception, about a foot high, the masterpiece of his chisel. Robed in azure and white, with " looks commercing with the skies Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes," 1 Page 781. * Page 790. Handbook, p. 386. Sculpture. Architecture. S. Martinez. her delicate hands... | |
 | William Sandys Wright Vaux, British Museum - Antiquities - 1851 - 528 pages
...one in the Vatican : in the latter the face is raised, and the head slightly thrown back : — " Her looks commercing with the skies, Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes." No. 327 is a torso of a male figure, obtained by Lord Elgin from the neighbourhood of Epidaurus.1 It... | |
| |
... then, let the divinest of the muses, let Astronomy approach, and take him by the hand ; let her ' Come, but keep her wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes. 
