"Damozel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 3: Though the idea is somewhat different, there is a certain parallelism in the picture evoked by the closing verses of Rossetti's poem "The Blessed Damozel." The Damozel is represented as waiting for her lover on ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... young man named Holman Hunt had a studio, and where another young artist by the name of William Morris came to visit them; and here was born "The Germ," that queer little chipmunk magazine in which first appeared "Hand and Soul" and "The Blessed Damozel," written by Dante Gabriel when eighteen, the same age at which Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis." William Bell Scott used to come here, too. Scott was a great man in his day. He had no hair on his head or face, not even eyebrows. Every follicle had grown ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14 - Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women • Elbert Hubbard
... it was entirely different. His drawing may have been as faulty as people said it was, and he may have been as fond as they also said of bestowing upon all his subjects exaggerated and almost ungainly features, which possibly belonged to the Blessed Damozel, but were not the most indisputable part of her blessedness. But they were, despite their similarity of type, all personal and individual, and all suggestive to the mind and the emotions of real women, and of the things which real women are and do and ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury
... I find I can't sit here and gloat all to myself. I can't be happy, shutting him out. I must share. I understand exactly what the Blessed Damozel felt like. ...
— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim |
