a something of a break, the capriciousness of
a trifle hoarseness, a something of a break,
which mars it as mere sound, but
gives it more power than that of ₁
voices so vocal, so unlike pipe, or reed, or string,
and yet which have in their sweetness a something of ₂
that passion, a certain resemblance, even, a something of ₃
the capriciousness of
the art, of the man, of myself ₂
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- Ariadne in Mantua, A Romance in Five Acts, by Vernon Lee. (Oxford and London, 1903) : 18
more - “Botticelli at the Villa Lemmi,” in Juvenilia : being a second series of Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee. Vol. 1. (London, 1887) : 77-129 (88)
more - ex “Mediaeval Love,” in Euphorion : being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance by Vernon Lee [dedicated to Walter Pater, ]. Vol. 2 (of two); (London, 1884) :
121-217 (206)
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