Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 101
self incurves of complete loveliness, with no reference to any other emotion thanpleasure; a style crowded with a fantasy of grace and luxuriance andlaughter—the laughter of the gods; a style where every object in natureor art was seized upon and turned into beauty and made merry with,and where the… … Dinhig-table, Louis XIII. THE RENAISSANCE. 97 perfect, its humor triumphant, its arabesques so rich in detail that hardlyan inch escapes decoration with a grace and exuberance of line that, inmaintaining its curve, runs into all sorts of vagaries—imps frolicking inthe flowers, dragon-flies that…
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