 | 1872 - 612 psl.
...Madonna. We are thus imperceptibly edged on into the author's favourite regions of abstraction : — ' Yet, Jenny, looking long at you The woman almost fades...one shrinks To challenge from the scornful sphinx.' - Exactly. So this profound philosopher, whose somewhat particular reflections on the charms of the... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - 1872 - 128 psl.
...Madonna. We are thus imperceptibly edged on into the author's favourite regions of abstraction : — 1 Yet, Jenny, looking long at you The woman almost fades...one shrinks To challenge from the scornful sphinx.' Exactly. So this profound philosopher, whose somewhat particular reflections on the charms of the sleeper... | |
 | 1872 - 830 psl.
...of a Madonna. We are thus imperceptibly edged on into the author's favorite regions of abstraction : "Yet, Jenny, looking long at you The woman almost...one shrinks To challenge from the scornful sphinx." Exactly. So this profound philosopher, whose somewhat particular reflections OB the charms of the sleeper... | |
 | 1882 - 588 psl.
...revulsion of feeling in which for a moment the speaker contemplates the girl as being, after all, but ' A cipher of man's changeless sum Of lust, past, present, and to come,' he proceeds : — ' Like a toad shut in a stone, Seated while Time crumbles on ; Which sits there since... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1886 - 626 psl.
...Love roses better for its sake : — Only that this can never be : — Even so unto her sex is she. Yet, Jenny, looking long at you, The woman almost...scornful sphinx. Like a toad within a stone Seated v.-hilc Time crumbles on ; Which sits there since the earth was curs'd For Man's transgression at the... | |
 | 1896 - 832 psl.
...plain speaking, things rightly named. And what a picture of the pitiless vice that laid Jenny low ! Like a toad within a stone Seated while Time crumbles on, * * * # Which, living through all centuries, Not once has seen the sun arise ; Whose life, to its cold circle charmed,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 psl.
...Love roses better for its sake : — Only that this can never be : — Even so unto her sex is she. Yet, Jenny, looking long at you, The woman almost...present, and to come Is left. A riddle that one shrinks j8o To challenge from the scornful sphinx. Like a toad within a stone Seated while Time crumbles on;... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1913 - 598 psl.
...Love roses better for its sake : — Only that this can never be : — Even so unto her sex is she. Yet, Jenny, looking long at you, The woman almost...present, and to come, Is left. A riddle that one shrinks 280 To challenge from the scornful sphinx. Like a toad within a stone Seated while Time crumbles on... | |
 | Helena Maria Swanwick - 1913 - 244 psl.
...worst, faults and weaknesses, should be seized hold of by men, to make, of what should be a woman — " A cipher of man's changeless sum Of lust, past, present and to come," a creature whom law and society combine to treat as subhuman, a thing, not a person. Much indiscriminate... | |
 | Jonathan Freedman - 1990 - 360 psl.
...Biblical tags, the more fully she evades his mediations. Indeed, she soon "almost fades from view" and A cipher of man's changeless sum Of lust, past, present...one shrinks To challenge from the scornful sphinx. (DGR, 1: 91, 1l. 278-81) "Ashamed of [his] own shame," the speaker begins to suggest that his mockery... | |
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Yet, Jenny, looking long at you, The woman almost fades from view. A cipher of man's changeless sum Of lust, past, present, and to come Is left. A riddle that one shrinks To challenge from the scornful sphinx. 
