Word: gold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While deftly-wreathing russet, green, and gold...
...Italy, and the palmy days of art in the Netherlands, as the most pleasing epochs in the world's history. It was then that the love of the beautiful reigned supreme, uncontaminated by the more artificial tastes of later times, when genius commanded the respect and position which gold does now, and painters and sculptors held a rank second to none in the estimation of the people. In modern schools of art-the French and German, for example-we find much of good, but fail to discover any lofty devotion to the cause; for the money-getting mania...
...Give us nor gold nor precious stones...
...blood-stains cannot be hid with gold...
Undazzled by glare of gold...