Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 30
cusliioned sofas in gay indilTfivnce to themoral laws of the world outside their enchanted garden. An age like ours, buckrammedin prudery and loudly vaunting its own decency, would stand aghast at the pictures of /N1 R OD UC 7 ION. x x i Fragonard, and would run away and hide itself were one to… … THE MAKE-BELIEVE FLIGHT/ FROM THE PAINTING BY FRAGONARD. I)eople who welcomed their appearance, who eagerly bought them, or crowded about thewindows of the shops on the fashionable streets where they were exposed, saw in them whatwe see, or judged them as we judge them. Looked at, if once we could…
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