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The "Blessed Damozel" herself, who "leaned out From the gold Bar of Heaven," is a figure from the Paradiso, divested of the excessive abstraction of that part of Dante, and clothed partly in the gayer colours and more fleshly personality of English and French mediævalism, partly in a mystical halo which is peculiar to these nineteenth century re-creations of mediæval thought and feeling.
"We both realized what was in our hearts, and what must happen, when she looked out between her curtains like the Blessed Damozel, and I took her out of her bassourah and held her in my arms. That settled our fate," said Stanton, attractively boyish and eager in the warmth of his passion. It was genuine passion.
Madge had now served the evening meal, put in her head to announce it, and Sibyll withdrew to summon her father. "I trust he will not tarry too long, for I am sharp set!" muttered Marmaduke. "What thinkest thou of the damozel?" "Marry," answered Alwyn, thoughtfully, "I pity and marvel at her. There is eno' in her to furnish forth twenty court beauties.
The Blessed Damozel, although actually printed twice before the year 1870, was eagerly circulated in manuscript; and the volume which it now opens came at last to satisfy a long-standing curiosity as to the poet, whose pictures also had become an object of the same peculiar kind of interest.
Clare and Adrian came up at a quick pace. "My damozel dropped something," Adrian explained. Her mother asked what it was. "Nothing, mama," said Clare, demurely, and they proceeded as before. Overborne by his aunt's fluency of tongue, and occupied in acute calculation of the flying minutes, Richard let many pass before he edged in a word for Ralph. When he did, Mrs. Doria stopped him immediately.
Instead of the conventional rack of war-worn bats, a carved oak bookcase, with every shelf in a litter, filled the better part of one wall; and where I looked for cricketing groups, I found reproductions of such works as "Love and Death" and "The Blessed Damozel," in dusty frames and different parallels. The man might have been a minor poet instead of an athlete of the first water.
"A passably fair damozel," returned Anthony, "though a thought or so too marked and high in her lineaments, and wholly unlettered, no doubt; which were a pity, for George of Clarence has some pretty taste in the arts and poesies. But as Occleve hath it 'Gold, silver, jewel, cloth, beddyng, array,
Pater in his early writings, William Morris, Oscar Wilde, and all those others who dreamed that it was the artist's province to enrich the world with beautiful furniture for conduct itself seemed, in the philosophy of these writers, to aspire after the quality of tapestry are implicit in The Blessed Damozel and Troy Town. It is not that Rossetti could command words like Pater or Wilde.
He kissed the damozel eagerly, and then she said to me, 'This is Sir William de la Fosse, my true knight; so the knight took my hand and seemed to have such joy of me, that all the blood came up to my face for pure delight.
The blessed damozel of the feathers is attractive to you. Her freshness captivates you. Her brilliant conversation entertains you. She is the powdered and painted reason of these irrelevant escapades." "Don't sneer at her, Val." The words came quickly, like a bolt. Valentine frowned, and a deepening suspicion flashed in his eyes. "I did not think you were so easily flattered," he continued.
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