ction—rarely the suspended motionthat tires us by its arrest or vehemence. The gospelof the strenuous life may apply itself to the paintingof picture-, hut the powers forbid that they shouldrepresent the strenuous life, save a- we find itdepicted in such places as the Versailles gallery ofbattles!… … in the atmosphere and environing, no less than inthe people. In those immaculate breakfast-roomsof the early Victorian era you almost hear theclock tick, and you know that the jar of the worldenters only as a rumor. The gossips over their teamight have stepped out of Jane Austens or Mrs.Gaskells…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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