Word: damozels
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...sufficient. Mr. Joseph Macaulay makes, ah, a very Narcissus in the velveteens of Archibald the All-Right. If one might criticize Miss Laura Ferguson for languishing overmuch, there is always the answer that languishing becomes her as it did many a Victorian damozel. For the residuum, they are All-Right...
...WIFE OF ROSSETTI-Violet Hunt-Dutton ($4). The tragic story of Rossetti's "Blessed Damozel" and the Pre-Raphaelite group, by one of them...
Duveen. For four days Sir Joseph had been a harried witness. He had flayed the Hahn picture, testily calling its left eye "dead," "very dead," and "beadlike." On the fifth day he covered the whole damozel with one more coating of scorn. "She is a fat person!" he gibed. "A peasant type." Then he joyously pointed to a reproduction of the Louvre Belle. "This is a great lady of the period." Reverting to the Hahn painting he described the shoulders as flabby, the arms as puffy, the breast as lacking modeling, the embroidery as untrue to Leonardo's period...
...Song of the Hussites,' in the first two stanzas, which are the best, suggests somehow Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poems, the Blessed Damozel particularly. It is a quaintly worded and a very good piece of work...