appreheud

Updated: May 8, 2025

And I appreheud that it is this exalting or etherealising attribute of beauty to which all poets, all writers who would poetise the realities of life, have unconsciously rendered homage, in the rank to which they elevate what, stripped of such attribute, would be but a gaudy idol of painted clay.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07