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Art and life (1896)

Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935 · East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Printing Shop · leaf 62

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able by others, of being even shareable,as it were, by other kinds of utility, adds avery keen attraction to all beautiful thingsand beautiful actions, and, of course, viceversa. And things which are beautiful, butconnected with luxury and exclusive posses-sion, come to affect one as, so to speak,… … fi.fc tints—oleander pink, cinder grey, and mostdelicate citron—of the plaster which coversthe commonest cottages, the humblest chap-els, all round Genoa, there is something shortand acid in the pleasure one derives fromequally charming colors in expensive dresses ;similarly, in Italy, much of the…

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