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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 (15931633)
“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 milliners doll.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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