Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American writer
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 161.
“Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.”
— John Ruskin, book Modern Painters
Volume V, part IX, chapter III, section 52 (1860).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
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