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" Paint us an angel, if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled by the celestial light; paint us yet oftener a Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules... "
A Modern Composition and Rhetoric (complete Course) Containing the ... - Page 310
by Lewis Worthington Smith, James Eames Thomas - 1901 - 406 pages
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Calcutta Review, Volume 37

1862 - 394 pages
...turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory ; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules, which shall banish from the...a dingy pot-house, those rounded backs and stupid weather beaten faces that have bent over the spade, and done the rough work of the world— those homes...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18

1866 - 808 pages
...face upward, and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory ; but do not impose on us any .esthetic rules which shall banish from the region of art those...work of the world, — those homes with their tin cans, their brown pitchers, their rough curs, and their clusters of onions. In this world there are...
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Adam Bede, by George Eliot, Volume 2

Mary Ann Evans - 1859 - 390 pages
...turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory ; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the...bent over the spade and done the rough work of the world—those homes with their tin pans, their brown pitchers, their rough curs, and their clusters...
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Adam Bede, Volume 1

George Eliot - 1859 - 468 pages
...turning her mild face upward, and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the...hands, those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pot-house—those rounded backs and stupid, weather-beaten faces that have bent over the spade and...
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Adam Bede, by George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans - 1860 - 468 pages
...turning her mild face upward, and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the...weather-beaten faces that have bent over the spade and dono the rough work of the world — those homes with their tin pans, their brown pitchers, their rough...
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Thackeray: Review of Vanity Fair, Newcomes. Cut from Calcutta Review, Dec ...

1861 - 100 pages
...turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory ; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules, which shall banish from the...a dingy pot-house, those rounded backs and stupid weather beaten faces that have bent over the spade, and done the rough work of the world — those...
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The Year-book of Photography and Photographic News Almanac for ...

1889 - 1004 pages
...light ; paint us yet oftener a Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to receive the divine glory ; but do not impose upon us any aesthetic...shall banish from the region of art those old women ecraping carrots, with their work-worn hands ; those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pothouse...
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The Year-book of Photography and Photographic News Almanac for ...

1889 - 1586 pages
...upward and opening her arms to receive the divine glory ; but do not impose upon us any ¡esthetic rules which shall banish from the region of art those old women ecraping carrots, witL their work-worn hands ; those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pothouse...
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Adam Bede

George Eliot - 1877 - 504 pages
...face upward, and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory; but do not impose on us any assthetic rules which shall banish from the region of Art those...hands, those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pot-house—those rounded backs and stupid, weather-beaten faces that have bent over the spade and...
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The Works of George Eliot: Adam Bede

George Eliot - 1878 - 456 pages
...turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory ; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the...pans, their brown pitchers, their rough curs, and then- clusters of onions. In this world there are so many of these common coarse people, who have no...
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