Word: leste
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...show that, where one attains the desired end, a hundred advance on the path only so far as to upset their faith in their old ideas of art. These substitute in its place such a doubt of their power to appreciate works of true genius, and such a fear lest their ignorance of some technical point may lead them into some un-Ruskinian expression of admiration, that the pleasure which they feel in contemplating masterpieces is greatly blunted, if not totally destroyed...
Unto her father's heart, lest age or dowry...