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Alfred De Musset BASS-RELIEF bath-room beautiful bedroom blue satin panels bookcase brass bronze carpet carved ceiling centre chairs charming china chintz cold contrasted cornice dado decoration deep dining-room dishes door DRAWING-ROOM dress effect EMBROIDERED CURTAIN embroidered in brown exquisite eyes figure pictures fireplace floor flowers frieze furniture gilded gilt give glass gold color greenish harmony household hung Kaga Kalsomine kitchen large hall light lighter mantel-piece metallic green mirror mixed motto narrow nursery olive open fire orange ornament painted arras Pale green ground PATTERN FOR CUSHIONS piano pict picture-rod picturesque pink pinker tones plush polished pretty Prussian blue purple rattan rich rose-color rosewood Satsuma sconce shades side small parlor sofa soft stained statuettes tea-table terra-cotta tiles tone of green turquoise U. C. BERKELEY vase VELVET CURTAIN Venetian glass wall Walter Crane warm window wood wood-work yellow yellow pansies yellow-green
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Page 65 - WITH conscious pride I view the band Of faithful friends that round me stand : With pride exult, that I alone Can join these scattered gems in one : For they're a wreath of pearls, and I The silken cord on which they lie.
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Page 79 - LEILA, whene'er I gaze on thee My altered cheek turns pale; While upon thine, sweet maid, I see A deep'ning blush prevail. Leila, shall I the cause impart Why such a change takes place?— The crimson stream deserts my heart To mantle...
Page 30 - ... covers the walls with Japanese fans, chooses the furniture because it is old, not because it is pretty, and, if there are pictures, prefers faces of hideous old people, in strange, ugly headdresses — all this idea of the picturesque shows not an artistic sense, but an absence of the true capacity of selection, of distinction between beauty and ugliness, fitness and unfitness.
Page 139 - There is no delight like the use of the creative powers of the mind, and if children can really materially add to the beauty of the household in which they live, they materially add to their own happiness, and life is full of interest to them, and a whole world of delight is within their grasp.
Page 45 - ... and rings for curtains is making this more common than it used to be, when a vastly futile display of skill in upholstery was used in draping curtains that were never undraped, and so were practically ornaments, and not curtains at all.
Page 31 - Proportion is the first element of form ; line conies next. Most of us have to accept such forms as we find already made in the rooms we furnish ; but we may apparently alter the proportion greatly by our arrangement of line and mass.
Page 104 - This would be a small parlor that the most aesthetic recluse could entertain his one chosen friend or his own little family circle in with perfect content. The effect would be of cosy, sombre richness.
Page 98 - ... which the leaves of the horse-chestnut, just turning brown, are painted, with their thorny balls in gold ; a ceiling of pale gold-color, with a design of the same chestnut...
Page 21 - Yellow is a color that can be contrasted with various shades of itself more unerringly than any other color.