Religion in recent art : expository lectures on Rossetti, Burne Jones, Watts, Holman Hunt and Wagner (1905)
Forsyth, Peter Taylor, 1848-1921 · London : Hodder and Stoughton · leaf 140
that end, lightedto define the undefinable, and only revealing naked-ness of soul, and the frayed feathers torn from adeparted possession, a lost innocence, and a lostjoy. This, roughly speaking, is what he felt aboutthe picture; but he begs me to say he would inno way wish to trammel your thoughts… … (i. F. Wails. /•. IfoUytr, rlioto, 9 Icmbroke Gro-.(, If. HOlK WATTS 107 to all we have gained. And they are disposed toadapt with new and burning signiificance the oldinquiry, What shall it profit an age if it gain thewhole world and lose its own soul ? Even Rossetti was no pessimist, far less…
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