Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers (1907)
Singleton, Esther, 1865-1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead · leaf 218
shallhave to bear him into battle ; submissive indeed to the spur,bitted and bridled for obedience, yet honourably deckedwith trappings whose studs and bosses are fair carven faces.But though of colour prosaically useful, this horse has adeeper kinship with the air. Many of the ancient historiesand… … ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON 163 already the passionate onset has been brought to suddenpause in that crash of encounter. Though the flash of anearthly fire be in his eye, its force in his limbs—though theclothing of his neck be Chthonian thunder—this steed isbrother, too, to that one, born by…
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