 | Peter George Patmore - 1844 - 296 pages
...on \ his knees, — his head drooping towards it like a plucked flower. The pale face is resting on clasped hand, — over which, and all round the small...sole idol in the temple of poetry, Milton, and is either lapped in the Elysium of its divine music, or lost in the mazes of its marvellous imagery, or... | |
 | Basil Champneys - 1900 - 596 pages
...open on his knees, his head drooping towards it like a plucked flower. The pale face is resting on the clasped hand, over which, and all round the small,...waves of auburn hair, concealing all but one pale cheek—pale and cold as marble, but smooth and soft as a girl's. " Dead to all the brilliant nothings... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1905 - 284 pages
...open on his knees, his head drooping towards it like a plucked flower. The pale face is resting on the clasped hand, over which, and all round the small,...cold as marble, but smooth and soft as a girl's." The Poems of 1844, however, as we look back upon it across sixty years, was a volume which might excuse... | |
 | 1906 - 956 pages
...open on his knees, his head drooping towards it like a plucked flower. The pale face is resting on the clasped hand, over which, and all round the small,...and cold as marble, but smooth and soft as a girl's. On reading this, one is inclined to sympathize with Coventry's mother, and to forgive the more normal... | |
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The pale face is resting on clasped hand, — over which, and all round the small exquisitely modelled head, fall heavy waves of auburn hair, concealing all but one pale cheek — pale and cold as marble, but smooth and soft as a girl's. 