 Catching another glimpse, you beheld her as implacable as a stone, and cruel as fire. In a word, all Cleopatra— fierce, voluptuous, passionate, tender, wicked, terrible, and full of poisonous and rapturous enchantment— was kneaded into what, only...  The Marble Faun: Or, the Romance of Monte Beni - Página 162de Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 288 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Clara Erskine Clement Waters, Laurence Hutton - 1879 - 486 páginas
...lump of wet clay from the Tiber. Soon apotheosized in an indestructible material, she would be ore of the images that men keep forever, finding a heat in them that does not cool down through the centuries." — HAWTHORNE, in The MarUe Faun. Story, George H.,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1900 - 350 páginas
...Soon, apotheosized in an indestructible material, she would be one of the images that men keep 173 forever, finding a heat in them which does not cool down, throughout the centuries.1 " What a woman is this ! " exclaimed Miriam, after a long pause. " Tell me, did she ever... | |
 | 1896 - 864 páginas
...had been a lump of wet clay from the Tiber. Soon apotheosized in an indestructible material she will be one of the images that men keep forever, finding a heat in them that does not cool down through the centuries. Mr. Story's best work was " Roba di Roma," a description... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1983 - 1308 páginas
...repose, no doubt, was as complete as if she were never to stir hand or foot again; and yet, such was die never try — even while you were creating her — to overcome you with her fury, or her love? Were... | |
 | Henry S. Sussman - 1989 - 273 páginas
...and, for one instant—as it were between two pulse-throbs—had relinquished all activity" (126). "Soon apotheosized in an indestructible material,...images that men keep forever, finding a heat in them that does not go down, throughout the centuries" (127). But Hawthorne is not content merely to initimate... | |
 | Elizabeth Lennox Keyser - 1993 - 252 páginas
...and fierceness" (957), is designed to do for generations of men what Hilda's hand does for Kenyon: "Soon, apotheosized in an indestructible material,...which does not cool down, throughout the centuries" (958). Hilda's hand and the Cleopatra both represent the contradictory demands that men make of sculpture... | |
 | Eric L. Haralson, John Hollander - 1998 - 598 páginas
...rapturous enchantment what, only a week or two before, had been a lump of wet clay from the Tiber . . . would be one of the images that men keep forever,...which does not cool down, throughout the centuries. No work of art ever enjoyed better pre-event publicity. Today, the aloof, highly chiseled sculpture... | |
 | 1952 - 404 páginas
...of life. And so there was Kenyon's statue of Cleopatra (really Story's), of which the narrator said: In a word, all Cleopatra — fierce, voluptuous, passionate,...which does not cool down, throughout the centuries. Accounting for this miracle Kenyon said: "I kindled a great fire within my mind, and threw in the material,... | |
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