"Translatress" Quotes from Famous Books
... delicate figure, with a shower of dark curls falling on either side of a most expressive face, large tender eyes, richly fringed by dark eyelashes, a smile like a sunbeam, and such a look of youthfulness that I had some difficulty in persuading a friend ... that the translatress of the Prometheus of AEschylus, the authoress of the Essay on Mind, was old enough to be introduced into company,—in ... — Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester |