Her gods and goddesses sat on a yellow pitambar which covered a raised platform.

The lovers of beauty, preferring what is dull to what is offensive, will rather doze over the inanities and insipidities of a drowsy dilettantism, than choose to be irritated into wakeful attention by ugly contours, disproportioned figures, and ill-assorted colours, drawn and arranged after the hard and ignorant manner of the early Christian painters, and imbued with the childish symbolism of the dismal Middle Ages.

Is sorry Sir Bassingbourne should have so much trouble in getting his glass. Undersends the charge.

a soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit