John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)
Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 282
Vanity led, as it so often does, to the sacrifice of virtue. Her husband discovered that she wasfaithless, by a device borrowed from the old mythology, and not exactly fit to be recorded here. Atany rate it exposed the false wife and treacherous guest to universal contempt and ridicule,… … LANDSCAPE WITH COWS. FROM A PAINTING BY PAUL POTBER. her, abashed and j)enitent, to her senses, and to her husbands feet, to find, strange to say, forgivenessthere ! He must indeed have loved this frail flower, to have taken it, disgraced and sullied as it was,again to his bosom. On pardonne tant…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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