Word: dame
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...reason why we have thus to cultivate and reform our taste from the beginning, is that our surroundings - excepting only where man has not interfered with "Dame Nature," to use the correct expression - are the reverse of artistic. The interior of most of our churches suggests as surely an ideally enlarged soap-box as the Cologne Cathedral interior calls up the vague mystery of a vast forest...
Like panting dame after valse or galop...