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 406
Or, it might be, a beauty of the earth, Who found a more than common votary there, Too much adoring ! Whatsoeer thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth. Here didst thou dwell, in this enchanted cover,Egeria ! thy all heavenly bosom beatingFor the far footsteps of thy… … CLAUDE LORRATN. Witli her most starry canopy. And seatingThyself by thine adorer, what befel ?The cave was surely shaped out for th& greetingOf an enamoured goddess, and the cellHaunted by holy love—the eailiest oracle !
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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