“There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.Rate it:(0.00 / 0 votes)

writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)

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