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The long-winged cinnamon-flies spun and fluttered over the pools; the sand-bees hummed merrily round their burrows in the marly bank; and delicate iridescent ephemerae rose by hundreds from the depths, and, dropping their shells, floated away, each a tiny Venus Anadyomene, down the glassy ripples of the reaches.
Which are the most profane these pictures, or the Venus Anadyomene of Apelles, the Venus of Titian, and the Leda of Correggio? "The oldest oil painting now in existence, is believed to be one of the Madonna and infant Jesus in her arms, with an Eastern style of countenance.
'Do you hear? cried the man with a curse. 'You are free. Jump up, or I shut the door again, and your one chance is over. 'Did she dance Venus Anadyomene? 'She! Who? 'My sister! Pelagia! 'Heaven only knows what she has not danced in her time! But they say she dances to-day once more. Quick! out, or I shall not be ready in time for the sports. They begin an hour hence.
Yet it stood there, erect and challenging, this miserable human tadpole, usurping the throne of Lais and crowned with the worship of such devotees as Patterson and Wigram. Are all women ugly? The query flashed through Geoffrey's brain. Is the vision of Aphrodite Anadyomene an artist's lie? Then he thought of Asako. Stripped of her gauzy nightdresses, was she like this? A shame on such imagining!
"So far as I know, it is Venus Anadyomene." A flash of laughter passed across his face and left it still angrier, still more indecorously defiant. "I like her best, anyhow. I do, indeed. But, Lord! I feel that almost any of them " "Tut, tut!" said Benham. Prothero flushed deeply but stuck to his discourse. "Wasn't it always your principle, Benham, to look facts in the face?
Happy the wind which passed through that purple and pearl, which dilated those pretty nostrils, so finely cut and shaded with rosy tints like the mother-of-pearl of the shells thrown by the sea on the shore of Cyprus at the feet of Venus Anadyomene! But are there not a multitude of favours thus granted to things which cannot understand them?
'To Pelagia? gasped the youth. 'In the theatre? Publicly? Venus Anadyomene? 'Yes, fool! Were you, too, drunk last night after all? 'She is my sister! 'Well, and what of that? Not that I believe you, you villain! So! said Orestes, who comprehended the matter in an instant. 'Apparitors! The door opened, and the guard appeared. 'Here is a good boy who is inclined to make a fool of himself.
When the ray of happiness breaks in the last tear of longing, Iris is already adorning the eternal brow of heaven with the delicate tints of her many-colored rainbow. Sweet dreams come true, and the pure forms of a new generation rise up out of Lethe's waves, beautiful as Anadyomene, and exhibit their limbs in the place of the vanished darkness.
A statue of Apollo playing on the lyre, of porphyry, is the greatest masterpiece in the hall of coloured marbles; while in the gallery of the Muses a basin of Athenian porphyry occupies the first place. In the Adonis room the beautiful Venus Anadyomene engrossed my chief attention; and in the cabinet of Venus the Venus Callipygos forms an exquisite sidepiece to the Venus de Medicis.
"But if I go to sleep, Mum, I shan't hear you come up." "Well, when I do, I'll come in and give you a kiss, then if you're awake you'll know, and if you're not you'll still know you've had one." Little Jon sighed, "All right!" he said: "I suppose I must put up with that. Mum?" "Yes?" "What was her name that Daddy believes in? Venus Anna Diomedes?" "Oh! my angel! Anadyomene."
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