 Already there appeared the rural fantasies where the blase conceits were disappearing. Already the puffing tritons, the grave goddesses, and the learned nymphs, the busts with flowing wigs, frozen with horror in their wealth of verdure, beheld an English...  Three Novelettes and Valentine's Wager: A Comedy - Page 161by Alfred de Musset - 1888 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
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...horror in their wealth of verdure, beheld an English garden rise from the ground, amid the wandering trees. Little lawns, little streams, little bridges, were soon to dethrone Olympus to replace it by a dairy,—strange parody of nature, which the English copy without understanding,—very child's play,... | |
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...perfection, was beginning to show itself. Already there appeared the rural fantasies where the blase conceits were disappearing. Already the puffing tritons,...strange parody of nature, which the English copy without understanding—very child's play, for the nonce the pastime of an indolent master who tried in vain... | |
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