“It is not the social disaster which we hark back to, but the emotive response - the existential repose and quietude with which men confronted their impending doom.”

“The work captures O'Hara in repose yet with the suggestion that he would be ready at an instant to bounce into action.”

“Such a depth of repose in so young a man.”

“How sweetly he would repose in the four-poster bed.”

“Literally in a backwater not far from The Hague, Delft reposes among the clefts made through the sleepy Dutch fields by the delta of the Rhine.”

“I'll go to him, and repose our distresses on his friendly bosom.”