Word: nymph
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...That evening there was in the audience calling aloud with the rest, a young Hungarian of godlike features and stature, who was to transform the chaste nymph that I was into a wild and careless Bacchante...
...Significance. The parents of genius usually invite more speculation than its children. But its children have supplied Author Kennedy with the material for two novels. Just as in The Constant Nymph she studied reflections of the erratic musician Sanger, as they appeared in his children, she now unfolds the more tragic influences of Norman Crowne as they animate his son and daughter. As these two are more tragic, they are more spectacular. Their bright uneven beauty sometimes begins to be a little unreal. But the construction of her theme, the way in which their mercurial doings are played against...
...list of works with A Century of Revolution, which is not at all like either herself or her later writings, and in which nobody who reads her novels takes more than a studious interest. The Ladies of Lyndon, her first fiction, made small stir; but with The Constant Nymph there was a great roar of approval from critics and gentle readers. At that time Author Kennedy was not long out of Somerville College, Oxford, where she sang in Sir Hugh Allen's famed Oxford Bach Choir. Author Kennedy dislikes games & most violent exercise, likes swimming, dancing (hornpipes or foxtrots...
Indra, sensing a challenge to his power in the superhuman purity of Saradvat, an holy man, sent a celestial nymph to tempt him. The celibate, seated in austere nakedness upon the ground, "fixed his eyes upon himself" and resisted temptation...
...length, though Saradvat ignored the nymph, Indra was able by a miracle to effect his undoing. "A slight convulsion shook the form of Saradvat," and "from himself sprang twin children, a boy and a girl, Drona and Kirpa...