'Private Views. This passage, which I found in a contemporary chronicle, is so quaint and so instinct with the spirit of its time that I am fain to quote it: 'There were quaint, beautiful, extraordinary costumes walking about ultra-aesthetics, artistic-aesthetics, aesthetics that made up their minds to be daring, and suddenly gave way in some important point put a frivolous bonnet on the top of a grave and flowing garment that Albert Durer might have designed for a mantle.
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