William Morris to Whistler; papers and addresses on art and craft and the commonweal (1911)
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell & Sons ltd. · leaf 240
eauty against modern social and economic con-ditions. I do not ask for damages—they are in-calculable. She stands before you, a pathetic figure,obscured in shreds and patches, driven from pillarto post, disinherited, a casual, and obliged to begher bread, who should be a welcome and anhonoured… … A SHORT SURVEY OF THE ART OF THENINETEENTH CENTURY, CHIEFLY INENGLAND, WITH SOME NOTES ONRECENT DEVELOPMENTS A HUNDRED years is but an arbitrarydivision of time, and yet one cannot helpinvesting the centuries with a sort of personaHtyas they pass, each distinguished by certain char-acteristics,…
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