A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1902 - 355 pages |
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Page 34
... portrait , the strong , large- nosed , thick - lipped face framed in a black hood , so ugly and yet so fascinating . One feels that the owner of this face might easily have become a sensuous brute , and yet by the grace that was given ...
... portrait , the strong , large- nosed , thick - lipped face framed in a black hood , so ugly and yet so fascinating . One feels that the owner of this face might easily have become a sensuous brute , and yet by the grace that was given ...
Page 35
... portrait of some one's pet dog that died hundreds of years ago , and beneath it a touching epitaph . The building is old indeed , for its history can be traced since the year nine hundred and odd , and the family from whom the present ...
... portrait of some one's pet dog that died hundreds of years ago , and beneath it a touching epitaph . The building is old indeed , for its history can be traced since the year nine hundred and odd , and the family from whom the present ...
Page 58
... portrait by some great artist of a later age . So real and so full of life and intelligence is it , however , that whoever was its model must have been both a lovely and a clever woman . Indeed , genius seems to sit upon that brow of ...
... portrait by some great artist of a later age . So real and so full of life and intelligence is it , however , that whoever was its model must have been both a lovely and a clever woman . Indeed , genius seems to sit upon that brow of ...
Page 79
... portraits have no trustworthy basis to recommend them to our conviction ; that in appearance indeed the chosen twelve did not differ very widely from such men of the more intellectual stamp , as are now to be seen in Cyprus and Syria ...
... portraits have no trustworthy basis to recommend them to our conviction ; that in appearance indeed the chosen twelve did not differ very widely from such men of the more intellectual stamp , as are now to be seen in Cyprus and Syria ...
Page 117
... portrait of Faustina , of which lady of that name , I am not certain , but I imagine , the elder . This head , the best thing of the sort that I can find in any Cyprian collection , either in the island or the British Museum , I ...
... portrait of Faustina , of which lady of that name , I am not certain , but I imagine , the elder . This head , the best thing of the sort that I can find in any Cyprian collection , either in the island or the British Museum , I ...
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