The digressions of V., written for his own fun and that of his friends (1910)
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Co. · leaf 496
ountain-side waiting that rising star whose slender ray will atits appointed time pierce the rocky and colonnaded corridor, torest deep in the mountain on the smiling face of its god. All elsesinks into insignificance compared with this pervading spirit ofgrandeur. Hieroglyphs and symbolism run… … EGYPT 453 stand, do not constitute the beauty and the grandeur of Egyptianarchitecture. I will here mark the end of this — for me — sublime and sus-tained flight, and not waiting for the critic, lure my Pegasus downto earth and tie him to my bed-post, by saying that to me at leastthere was nothing…
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 · Artists
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