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WILLIAM MORRIS


wave and writhe in an extasy of love and poetry: they
are each and all to be found in the Bume-Jones book of
studies, and recur agm and again in such masterpieces
as the "Mirror of Venus," "Laus Veneris," "Le Chant
d'Amour," and "Love Among the Ruins#"
                         Altogether, in view of the
interest already noted and because of many subtleties
untouched upon in the present slight criticism, the opera
of "Patience" should be preserved as a "little classic,"
containing the rapidly drawn sketches of three most
important figures Mi the art-life of the nineteenth century.