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Page 113
... colour tones , from tender green to golden yellow . The skies , where the pigeons fly , and the clouds have those delicate tints that one can observe in the earliest blossoming of trees . The cities are deluged with roses . The only ...
... colour tones , from tender green to golden yellow . The skies , where the pigeons fly , and the clouds have those delicate tints that one can observe in the earliest blossoming of trees . The cities are deluged with roses . The only ...
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... colour , as significant as Wagner's music , threatening to replace form by vividness and variety of sound . The glitter of colour tended to supersede the green thought in a green shade ' ; and only one interval occurred in the ...
... colour , as significant as Wagner's music , threatening to replace form by vividness and variety of sound . The glitter of colour tended to supersede the green thought in a green shade ' ; and only one interval occurred in the ...
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... colour it providentially avoided the two most strident tones which brought discredit on Victorian floral taste the vermilions and scarlets and also the difficult range of blues . Otherwise the range of colour , as described by ...
... colour it providentially avoided the two most strident tones which brought discredit on Victorian floral taste the vermilions and scarlets and also the difficult range of blues . Otherwise the range of colour , as described by ...
Contents
PARADISE | 30 |
THE YOUNGER PLINY AND THE VILLA | 81 |
THE JEWELLED TREE | 100 |
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