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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