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Page 51
... painted yellow , green and vivid blue , and would then probably encourage the person who occupied it to brilliant ... paint an extravagantly lascivious design over the innocent surface of a table , then quickly and cleverly reduce it to ...
... painted yellow , green and vivid blue , and would then probably encourage the person who occupied it to brilliant ... paint an extravagantly lascivious design over the innocent surface of a table , then quickly and cleverly reduce it to ...
Page 53
... painted about 1926 , has a slightly tense and over - anxious look , as if he were confronting a technical problem that he knew he could not hope to solve . - - Yet what an amusing and engaging face it is the high forehead , surmounted ...
... painted about 1926 , has a slightly tense and over - anxious look , as if he were confronting a technical problem that he knew he could not hope to solve . - - Yet what an amusing and engaging face it is the high forehead , surmounted ...
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... painted . I have already compared the youthful Elie Decazes to one of Balzac's fiercely - determined heroes ; and between his grand- daughter and certain of the novelist's heroines there is often a curious resemblance . One can imagine ...
... painted . I have already compared the youthful Elie Decazes to one of Balzac's fiercely - determined heroes ; and between his grand- daughter and certain of the novelist's heroines there is often a curious resemblance . One can imagine ...
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The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
The Death of the Lion | 66 |
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