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Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard worked for tyrants and for slaves. Their works show no feeling for good style or purity of line, no love of nature or truth. Masks, dolls, fripperies, monkey-tricks, nothing else! Posterity will despise their frivolous productions.
The satirical gods now set Tantalus-wise before my eyes a picture of beauty and ease and shelter a pretty woman in the charming fripperies of evening dress. But while I scowled, her eyes smiled back into my own, challenging in me the vagabond spirit of the whimsical, until I too smiled. I bowed to the picture. "You are quite right," I said aloud.
It's like them both and yet it grips you harder than either," she added. "I suppose it's because there are no hotels, or steamers. Probably very few white people have ever been here before." "I really don't think many have," said Ida Stirling. Then Miss Kinnaird laughed softly as she glanced at her attire. "I must take off these fripperies. They're out of key," she said.
In other words, the luxurious or investing class has cut off its peace-time fripperies, saved and lent to the Government; the Government has paid the bulk of this money to the working class, who have spent most of it in what to them would be fripperies in time of peace.
And a Christian minister has to lift up his voice and not be afraid, to see to it that his speech be plain, and that it do not overlay the message with fripperies of ornament, or affectations, or personalities, and to plead earnestly and lovingly with men to come to the divine Healer. John Baptist's description of himself is true of them.
All the pretty fripperies and frivolities had been freshened and refurbished since their desecration at alien hands, and the place looked cheery and homelike; but Emmy found it surprisingly small, and was amazed to discover the prodigious space taken up by the baby.
Presently the visitors appeared at the foot of the stairs, and Darius climbed carefully, having first shaken the balustrade to make sure that it was genuine, stout, and well-founded. Mrs Hamps followed, the fripperies of her elegant bonnet trembling, and her black gown rustling. Edwin smiled at her, and she returned his smile with usurious interest. There was now a mist of grey in her fine hair.
Hats," two eager hands went up to her head "dresses" they waved descriptively in the air "coats; fripperies of all descriptions, delicious blouses for every occasion, and evening-dresses! oh, chiffon and lace and sequins, and everything that is fascinating!
"So much more rational and convenient than our fashionable fripperies!" Another fact of great interest was that the Moquis were lighter complexioned than Indians in general. And when she discovered a woman with fair skin, blue eyes, and yellow hair one of those albinos who are found among the inhabitants of the pueblos she went into an excitement which was nothing less than ethnological.
I seemed to see the Puritanic figure of my guardian standing among the fripperies of the theatre and pointing to the players, the fantastic and effeminate men, the painted women, the giddy girl in boy's clothes, merrier than modest, pointing to these with solemn ridicule, and eying me with stern rebuke. His image was a type of the austere duty, and they of the vanities of life.
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