Ivory Apes And Peacock
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165 . . . . VENICE AND BUDAPEST 167 Alas! Venice is a catchword. VENICE AND When you tread the stones of Venice, BUDAPEST ^ ' {May) they actually melt and resolve themselves into glowing prose ; when you lounge in a gondola, the lazy splash of the water sighs of half a hundred " Gondolieras, " and the Grand Canal looks a little incomplete without its gilt frame. The curse of the catchword, which spoils so many beautiful works of Art and of Nature, — such as Chopin, the Taj, and Shakespeare, — h...as descended on Venice. The catchword is a terrible calamity. When things and persons become catchwords, they lose all their fascination and their glamour, — the bloom is off the peach, all subtlety deserts the catch - word. I hardly think that Cleopatra would fascinate any one of us ; I am sure I should not look twice at Helen. To be a catchword is the great penalty of Fame. Yet though all the gracious robes of illusion and mystery slip off the catchword, some few catchwords sustain the loss gallantly — "No beauty doth she miss When all her robes are on : But Beauty's self she is — When all her robes are gone.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
165 . . . . VENICE AND BUDAPEST 167 Alas! Venice is a catchword. VENICE AND When you tread the stones of Venice, BUDAPEST ^ ' {May) they actually melt and resolve themselves into glowing prose ; when you lounge in a gondola, the lazy splash of the water sighs of half a hundred " Gondolieras, " and the Grand Canal looks a little incomplete without its gilt frame. The curse of the catchword, which spoils so many beautiful works of Art and of Nature, — such as Chopin, the Taj, and Shakespeare, — h...as descended on Venice. The catchword is a terrible calamity. When things and persons become catchwords, they lose all their fascination and their glamour, — the bloom is off the peach, all subtlety deserts the catch - word. I hardly think that Cleopatra would fascinate any one of us ; I am sure I should not look twice at Helen. To be a catchword is the great penalty of Fame. Yet though all the gracious robes of illusion and mystery slip off the catchword, some few catchwords sustain the loss gallantly — "No beauty doth she miss When all her robes are on : But Beauty's self she is — When all her robes are gone.
What to read after Ivory Apes And Peacock?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Israfel to read onlineMoreLess
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