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Excerpt from A Modern Lover The last speaker was an Old, wizened little creature, with a grizzled white beard; the other was a young man of exquisite beauty, his feminine grace seemed like a relic of ancient Greece, saved by some miracle through the wreck and ruin of ages. He leaned against an oak bureau, placed under a high, narrow window, and the pose defined his too developed hips, always, iny a man, the sign of a weak and lascivious nature. His com panion looked nervously through a pile of drawings, holding them up for a moment to the light, then instantly throwing them back into the heap which lay before him. He was evidently not examining them with a view to ascertaining their relative value, nor was be searching for any particular one 3 he was Obviously pretending to be busy, so that he might get rid of his visitor. The day died gloomily, and the lateral lines of the houses faded into a dun-coloured sky; but against the window the profiles of both men came out sharply, like the silhouettes of fifty years ago. Pictures of all sizes and kinds covered and were piled against the walls 3 screens had been put up to hang them on, but even then the space did not suffice. Pictures had gradually thrust almost everything else in the way of furniture out of the room; the sofas and chairs had been taken away to make place for them. The curtains had been pulled down to gain more light, only the heavy gold cornices remained, and the richness of these precluded the idea that the place was the shop of a vendor of cheap lodging-house art. Besides, the work, although as bad, was not of that kind. It was rather the lumber of studios, heads done after the model posing for a class, landscapes painted for some particular bit, regardless of composition. And what confusion! Next to an admirable landscape you would find a Virgin in red and blue draperies, of the crudest description 3 then came a horrible fruit piece, placed over an interesting attempt to reproduce the art of the fourteenth century 3 and this was followed by a whole line Of racing sketches, of the very vulgarest kind. Yet in the midst of this heterogeneous collection there was a series of pictures whose curious originality could not fail to attract the eye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Plný název: A Modern Lover (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: George Moore
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 344
• EAN: 9781333604257
• ISBN: 1333604254
• ID: 14414302
• Nakladatelství: Forgotten Books
• Hmotnost: 462 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Datum vydání: 15. September 2016

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