Boucher's famous portrait of Madame Pompadour reveals that even she, who was the ideal civil servant, kept her personal possessions lying about on the floor. The homely disorder on the chapel steps was therefore simply a proof that this ...
She had strength , the terrible stony strength of Macedonia ; she was begotten and born of stocks who could mock all bullets save those which went through the heart , who could outlive the winters when they were driven into the ...
Rebecca Lamb. xxii Black Lamb and Grey Falcon for friends, West insists, 'one is striking a low note on a scale that is struck higher up ... 6 Selected Letters of Rebecca West, edited by Bonnie Kime Scott, Yale, New Haven, 2000, p.169.
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