Imaginary Conversations
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217229852
Paperback|9780217229852
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Rhodopl. I am glad to hear it. jEsop. Art thou ? I will tell thee then how she was depicted j for I remember no author who has related it. Her lips were half open; her hair flew loosely behind her, designating that she was in haste: it was more disordered, and it was darker, than the hair of Hope is represented, and somewhat less glossy. Her cheeks had a very fresh color, and her eyes looked into every eye that fell upon them; by her motion she seemed to be on her way into the labyrinth. Rhodope. Oh how I wish I could see such a picture ssop.' I do now. Rhodopl. Where ? where ? Troublesome man Are you always so mischievous ? but your smile is not ill-natured. I cannot help thinking that the smiles of men are pleasanter and sweeter than of women; unless of the women who are rather old and decrepit, who seem to want help, and who perhaps are thinking that we girls are now the very images of what they were formerly. But girls never look at me so charmingly as you do, nor smile with such benignity; and yet, O Phrygian there are several of them who really are much handsomer. Esop. Indeed ? Is that so clear ? Rhodopl. Perhaps in the sight of the gods they may not be, who see all things as they are. But some of them appear to me to be very beautiful. sEsop. Which are those ? Rhodopl. The very girls who think me the ugliest of them all. How strange Esop. That they should think thee so ? Rhodopl. No, no but that nearly all the most beautiful should be of this opinion; and the others should often come to look at me, apparently with delight, over each other's shoulder or under each other's arm, clinging to their girdle or holding by their sleeve and hanging a little back, as if there were something about me unsafe. They seem fearful regarding me ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217229852 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217229859 |
| Weight | 1.17 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 In |
| List Price | $24.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 360 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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