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They talked of their day's experience of the beauty of The Islands of Ronsard, his quaint house and quainter self, so different to the persons with whom they associated in their own exclusive and brilliant Court 'set, and the pretty Countess Amabil flirting harmlessly with Sir Walter Langton, suggested that a 'Flower Feast' or Carnival should be held during the summer, for the surprise and benefit of the Islanders, who had never yet seen a Royal pageant of pleasure on their shores.
They are ever so much quainter than stupid still-life pictures. Posterity ought to see you with your poor wounded soldiers, but meanwhile we really should have a chance to perpetuate you as you are. You are always on the go, and an ordinary picture does not represent you. Anyway, you will be nice to Miss Havender, for the sake of Yours affectionately,
Along its banks rise hills, green and well wooded, with beautiful gardens and verdant pastures reaching to the very brink of the shining stream. It was Saturday afternoon, and I never drove through a livelier, quainter, more easy-going town.
In his admirable school there is no painter one enjoys <i>pace</i> Ruskin more sociably and irresponsibly. Lippo Lippi is simpler, quainter, more frankly expressive; but we retain before him a remnant of the sympathetic discomfort provoked by the masters whose conceptions were still a trifle too large for their means.
They laughed merrily, over the quaint reminiscence of my old friend and the quainter way he had of telling it. The rude dialect of the backwoodsman might have seemed oddly out of place, there, but for the quiet, unassuming manner and the fine old face of Uncle Eb in which the dullest eye might see the soul of a gentleman. 'What became of Lucy? Mr Fuller enquired, laughingly.
Chester itself, most antique of English towns, can hardly show quainter architectural shapes than many of the buildings that border this street.
Thus it is, again, with this sentence from Ruskin's "Seven Lamps of Architecture": "They are but the rests and monotones of the art; it is to its far happier, far higher, exaltation that we owe those fair fronts of variegated mosaic, charged with wild fancies and dark hosts of imagery, thicker and quainter than ever filled the depths of midsummer dream; those vaulted gates, trellised with close leaves; those window-labyrinths of twisted tracery and starry light; those misty masses of multitudinous pinnacle and diademed tower; the only witnesses, perhaps, that remain to us of the faith and fear of nations."
The scale of everything was so different that all her minor values, her quainter graces, her little local authority, her humour and her wardrobe alike, for which it was enough elsewhere, among her bons amis, that they were hers, dear Fanny Assingham's these matters and others would be all, now, as nought: five minutes had sufficed to give her the fatal pitch.
Indeed, my own mother could not have been kinder than that good woman. She was one that had a heart and a hand for the sick-room. I told her how I had been hurt and of my ride. She heard me through with a glow in her eyes. "What a story!" said she. "What a daredevil! I do not see how it has been possible for you to live." She spoke to me always in English of quaint wording and quainter accent.
Unspoiled by the influx of strangers, the simple people thronged round us, not for what they might get, but for what they could see. We were quainter to them than they to us, and Tibe was as rare as a dragon. Escape seemed hopeless, when Nell and Phyllis had an inspiration.
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