Parsons, Frank Alvah, 1868-1930 · Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 50
or highly decorated church. Thestreets were filled with beggars of every class and con-dition. Petrarch, in writing of the fourteenth-centurycustoms and manners of the French, says of theirmilitary life: When you enter their company youmight fancy yourself in a tavern. The soldiers are eat-ing,… … EARLY THIRTEENTH CENTURY. FRENCH. THE QUIET BUT DIGNI-FIED ASSURANCE OF THESE EARLY THIRTEENTH CENTURY PER-SONAGES, WITH THE SIMPLE, RHYTHMIC CHARM OF THEIR COSTUMEDRAPERIES, VERY NEARLY APPROACHES THE SPIRITUAL QUALITY,THROUGH AN APPEAL TO THE .ESTHETIC SENSE.
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