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“But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild
At every word,
Me thoughts, I heard one calling, ‘Child!’
And I replied, ‘My Lord.’”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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