Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 167
diedpoetry. The Hours, that hand-in-hand encircle the car ofPhcebus, advance with rapid pace. The paler, milderforms of those gentler sisters who rule over decliningday, and the glowing glance of those who bask in themeridian blaze, resplendent in the hues of heaven, — areof no mortal grace and… … AURORA 115 and beauty around. Above the heads of the heavenlycoursers, hovers the morning star, in the form of a youth-ful cherub, bearing his flaming torch. Nothing is moreadmirable in this beautiful composition, than the motiongiven to the whole. The smooth and rapid step of thecircling Hours as…
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