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Art and life (1896)

Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935 · East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Printing Shop · leaf 13

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utely special, un-mistakable, and hitherto mysterious mannerexpressed in the fact of our finding thembeautiful. It is of the part which such things— whether actually present or merely shad-owed in our mind—can play in our life, of theinfluence of the instinct for beauty on theother instincts making… … what we have no word to express—the ag-gregate of all art, all poetry, and particularlyof all poetic and artistic vision and emotion.OR the bay laurel happens notmerely to be the evergreen, un-fading plant into which Apollometamorphosed, while pursu-ing the maiden whom he loved,even as the poet,…

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