Word: smile
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...muse has a smile...
...muse has a smile...
...muse has a smile...
...muse with a smile...
...simpler old fashioned straight-away measures allow all themes and all licenses of thought and subject. The majority of appropriate college themes in French metres would find themselves ill at ease when so finely gotten up and would move about in a restrained and over-careful manner. The sad smile of politeness and worn-out gallantry is substituted for substantial good-nature. Appearance is of first importance, little matters the rest...