half-bodily

Updated: June 29, 2025

Those isles of Greece, with their gold and purple haze of light and shadow, their exquisite, half-spiritual, half-bodily formation islands where flesh and blood became semi-spiritual, and where the sense of beauty was an existence have passed as a vision of glory, never to return.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2