 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
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1890 - 582 pages
...of ' Art.' We have all read the praise of ' Mademoiselle de Maupin ' in Mr. Swinburne's sonnet as ' the golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty.' And to the general public, Gautier is known simply as its author. But he has written many other volumes,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1890 - 590 pages
...of ' Art.' We have all read the praise of ' Mademoiselle de Maupin ' in Mr. Swinburne's sonnet as ' the golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty.' And to the general public, Gautier is known simply as its author. But he has written many other volumes,... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - Essays - 1891 - 412 pages
...porkbutcher, and makes love like a cony of the burrows, is to be the joy ! Since Mr. Lang has faith in the ' golden book of spirit and sense, the Holy Writ of Beauty,' I leave him to his religion. Again, I have said that Zola is a dullard au fond ; and so I hold him... | |
 | English periodicals - 1891 - 900 pages
...ideal of the Witch of Arden Wood. In that book of Theophile Oautier's which Mr. Swinburne has called " the golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty," there is an exquisite description of an ideal performance of " As You Like It." The play seems to have... | |
 | Gleeson White - Book verse - 1893 - 212 pages
...looks To the sure companionship of books. RH STODDARD. SONNET. WITH A COPY OF "MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN." THIS is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy...air of life that beauty's excellence Wherewith love makesonehour of life distraught, And all hours after follow and find not aught. Here is that height... | |
 | Gleeson White - Book verse - 1893 - 214 pages
...STODDARD. r SONNET. WITH A COPY OF "MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIS." is the golden book of spirit and sense, JL The holy writ of beauty ; he that wrought Made it...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... | |
 | Joseph Fouché (duc d'Otrante) - France - 1894 - 516 pages
...crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. each. Mademoiselle de Maupin, a Romance of Love and Passion. By THEOPHILE GAUTIER. ' The Golden Book of Spirit and Sense, the Holy Writ of Beauty.'— AC SWINBURNE. 1 Gautier is an inimitable model. His manner is so light and true, so really creative,... | |
 | Thomas Bird Mosher - Literature - 1898 - 600 pages
...sundering sea Leave thy sweet light to rise upon the dead. (With a copy of MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN.) Tins is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy writ...finds and loses in the dense Dim air of life that heauty's excellence Wherewith love makes one hour of life distraught And all hours after follow and... | |
 | Dora Greenwell - Devotional literature - 1899 - 212 pages
...(THtiOPHILE). Mademoiselle do Maupin. A Romance of Love and Passion. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. AC SWINBURNE.— "The golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty." Mr. HENRY JAMES — " Gautier is an inimitable model. His manner is so light and true, so really creative,... | |
 | William Henry Long - Great Britain - 1899 - 414 pages
...Crown Svo, y. bd. each, Mademoiselle de Maupin. A Romance of love and passion. 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,... | |
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