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Page 20
... beauty in their pictures and then looking at what they had painted saw beauty there too . It does not now require great perspicacity to receive as great a thrill of delight from a factory with its chimneys as from a green field with its ...
... beauty in their pictures and then looking at what they had painted saw beauty there too . It does not now require great perspicacity to receive as great a thrill of delight from a factory with its chimneys as from a green field with its ...
Page 86
... beauty was striking . But there was in his countenance more than beauty ; for the sombreness of his expression , almost surly in moments of repose , his large dark eyes , almond and shaped like those of an Oriental , his red lips ...
... beauty was striking . But there was in his countenance more than beauty ; for the sombreness of his expression , almost surly in moments of repose , his large dark eyes , almond and shaped like those of an Oriental , his red lips ...
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... beauty for us indefinitely . We know it doesn't . We get tired of it . Familiarity breeds not contempt perhaps , but indifference ; and indifference is the death of the æsthetic emotion . Beauty is a value , whatever its object may be ...
... beauty for us indefinitely . We know it doesn't . We get tired of it . Familiarity breeds not contempt perhaps , but indifference ; and indifference is the death of the æsthetic emotion . Beauty is a value , whatever its object may be ...
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