spirit-gaze

Updated: July 4, 2025

There is in that heaven-inspired face, the equal of which has been rarely, if ever, put on canvas, a blending of earthly beauty and of the calm, awe-compelling spirit-gaze that gaze, that holy dignity which can only come to such as are in truth and in deed "pure in heart" that will give to those who know it a better idea of what Angela was like than any written description.

Henry Rider Haggard - Dawn