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Updated: June 29, 2025
But it was hard for him to portray a Gretchen. All his pictures were Phryne, Phryne in triumph, in ruin, in a palace, in a poor-house, on a bed of roses, on a hospital mattress; Phryne laughing with a belt of jewels about her supple waist; Phryne lying with the stones of the dead-house under her naked limbs, but always Phryne.
When the taste for the classics began to be cultivated, we had "Leda and the Swan," "Psyche," "Phryne Before the Judges," "Aphrodite Rising From the Sea," and, later, England experienced quite an artistic eruption of Lady Godivas.
The nervous excitement of the moment was so great; there was such a wild booming in my ears I could hardly hear my own voice. She looked up. The tears welled into her luminous blue eyes. "How unkind you are! and how unjust! Of course I shall come, must come every day if you want it till the Phryne is done. You don't know how I love you." I took her dear little hand and kissed it.
She is the most dangerous of smooth-skinned witches, as fascinating as Phryne, but more wisely discreet. When you see her you will be at once reminded of Owen Meredith's 'Fatality': 'Live hair afloat with snakes of gold, And a throat as white as snow, And a stately figure and foot And that faint pink smile, so sweet, so cold.
It is probable that the Venus de Medici of Cleomenes was a mere copy of the Aphrodite of Praxiteles, which was so highly extolled by, the ancient authors; it was of Parian marble, and modelled from the celebrated Phryne. His statues of Dionysus also expressed the most consummate physical beauty, representing the god as a beautiful youth crowned with ivy, and expressing tender and dreamy emotions.
Likewise, when elderly enough, they have been allowed to serve on governing boards of "homes" and "refuges." Their activities were limited to rescue work. They might extend a hand to a repentant Magdalene. A Phryne they must not even be aware of. In other words, this evil as a subject of investigation and intelligent discussion among women was absolutely prohibited.
She had liefer be rid of me than not." She gazed at him with a peculiar blankness stealing over her face. "Oh, for the quintessence of all compounded oaths to charge my vow!" he said. "For what?" she asked. "My love, Phryne!" At the old pagan name with which he had affronted her that morning in the hills, Laodice drew back sharply. "Dost thou believe in me?" she asked. "Believe what?"
There is a legend about each; she is either an angel of purity and light, or a beautiful monster of iniquity; she has turned the heads of kings 'kings' in a vaguely royal plural completely round on their shoulders, or she has built out of her earnings a hospital for crippled children; the watery-sentimental eye of the flash crowd in its cups sees in her a Phryne, a Mrs. Fry, or a Saint Cecilia.
"There are Laura and Beatrice and Helen and Aspasia and Phryne, and hosts of others," said Charmian, nodding to the moon again. "Oh, yes our blacksmith has read of so many women in books that he has no more idea of women out of books than I of Sanscrit."
Never was a more fearful and damning community narrative enunciated in the entire Pacific, north and south, than that enunciated by Alice Akana; the penitent Phryne of Honolulu. "Huh!" the first comers heard her saying, having already disposed of most of the venial sins of the lesser ones of her memory.
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