 This is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy writ of beauty; he that wrought Made it with dreams and faultless words and thought That seeks and finds and loses in the dense Dim air of life that beauty's excellence Wherewith love makes one hour...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 2621878Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1887 - 698 pages
...With 17 high-ola» Etching«, 10«. M. elegantly bound, MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN. By THÉOPHILE GAUTIER. "The golden book of spirit and sense, the Holy Writ of beauty." Л. (,'. i' ' Illustrated with highly-finished Etchings, ««. handsomely bound, GERMINIE LACERTETJX.... | |
 | 1873 - 260 pages
...L'ivresse des couleurs et la paix des contours ! SULLY (With a copy of MADEMO1sEi1. E DE MAUPIH). 1 his is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy writ...beauty's excellence Wherewith love makes one hour of life distraught And all hours after follow and find not aught. Here is that height of all love's eminence... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1878 - 1878 - 296 pages
...sundering sea Leave thy sweet light to rise upon the dead. SONNET (WITH A COPY OF MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN.) THIS is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy...beauty's excellence Wherewith love makes one hour of life distraught And all hours after follow and find not aught. Here is that height of all love's eminence... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - Ethics - 1879 - 332 pages
..."This,"* says one of the best known of our living poets, of the work that I select to quote from — " This is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy writ of beauty." Of this " holy writ " the chief theme is love. Let us go on to see how love is there presented to us.... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - Fiction - 1879 - 360 pages
...' says one of the best known of our living poets, of the work that I select to quote from — TJiis is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy writ of beauty. ' Mr. AC Swinburne. Of this ' holy writ ' the chief theme is love. Let us go on to see how love is... | |
 | 1883 - 496 pages
...professedly writings of a wholly different type, since he has told us of a certain French novel — ' This is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy writ of beauty ; ' and he has spoken to its author of that inspiration which ' With all love of all things loveliest... | |
 | Alphonse Daudet - French fiction - 1888 - 300 pages
...high-class Etchings. Price 10s. 6d., elegantly bound. MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN. By THEOPHILE GAUTIEK. " The golden book of spirit and sense, the Holy Writ of beauty."—;!. C. Smnburn*. With page illustrations by JAMES TISSOT. Price 6s., handsomely bound. RENEE MAUPERIN.... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - American literature - 1888 - 572 pages
...fiction. Mr. Swinburne, especially, in tne course of a poem devoted to eulogy of the author, pronounces it "The golden book of spirit and sense— the Holy Writ of Beauty.' " 1 can never have too much human nature in novels, and am not squeamish about its grosser manifestations,... | |
 | Thomas Heywood - 1888 - 510 pages
...Etchings after Toudouze, price 10s. 6d., elegantly bound. MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN. By THEOPHILE GAUTIER. " The golden book of spirit and sense, the Holy Writ of beauty." — AC SWINBURNE. " Gautier is an inimitable model. His manner is so light and true, so really creative,... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 314 pages
...sea Leave thy sweet light to rise upon the dead. \ SONNET (WITH A COPY OF 'MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN'). THIS is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy...beauty's excellence Wherewith love makes one hour of life distraught And all hours after follow and find not aught. Here is that height of all love's eminence... | |
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