Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence), 1836-1915 · Boston, J.R. Osgood and company · leaf 196
ast we were all fire-worshippers,and in the far future we shall be absorbed in theglorious brightness of which the feeble flickeringblaze of our mortal existence is a typical spark.Our love for the warmth and brightness of thefire is not a thing to be cultivated or analyzed, itis instinctive, a… … THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILOEN FOUNDATIONS. FIREPLACES AND BIG WLYDOWS. 189 to enhance this, or any other innate beauty, byornamental surroundings is commonly a miser-able failure. It glows as brightly, sheds its radi-ance as freely and as far, from the uncouth chim-ney of the…
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