Juvenilia: Being a Second Series of Essays On Sundry æsthetical ..., volume 1
Juvenilia: Being a Second Series of Essays On Sundry æsthetical ..., volume 1
Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935
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Now, I sincerely think that I am quite without any morbid aesthetic aversion against modern times and modern arrangements: I often feel how much nobler in many ways of generous thought and endeavour, which we sniff at because it has become commonplace, is this prosaic age of ours than many another with which we associate ideas of romance ; I sometimes even feel a doubt whether in Digitized by Google BOTTICELLI AT THE VILLA LEI^MI. 8 1 several branches of art itself, in its most delicate branch ...of poetry, these modern times have not given and are not giving work more completely beautiful than the work of times with more pretensions to poetry and picturesqueness. I cannot therefore suspect myself of morbid aversion to modern things and actions. Yet this particular modern action of removing the frescoes from the Villa Lemmi leaves in me a strong, though at first somewhat inarticu- late, sense of dissatisfaction. It may be right, this instinctive and vague feeling of displeasure, or it may be wrong, but any way there it is ; and my present object is exactly to discover whether this is a selfish and sentimental personal crotchet, or a well-founded and honest conviction.
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