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| VI | VARIOUS |
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| 37 | CUPID’S ALLEY |
“O, Love’s but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! See the couples advance,— O, Love’s but a dance! A whisper, a glance— ‘Shall we twirl down the middle?’ O, Love’s but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! *** “Strange Dance! ’Tis free to Rank and Rags: Here no distinction flatters, Here riches shakes its money-bags, And Poverty its tatters: Church, Army, Navy, Physic, Law;— Maid, Mistress, Master, Valet; Long locks, grey hairs, bald heads, and a’,— They bob—in ‘Cupid’s Alley.’” Austin Dobson The picture is in the National Gallery of British Art. | |
| 38 | A COURT IN THE ALHAMBRA |
| 39 | BASTINADO |
| 40 | THE FAIRY WIFE |
| “In a mild and steady light, which came from no illumination of moon or stars, but seemed to be interfused with the air, in the strong, warm wind which wrapped the fell-top upon a sward of bent grass which ran toward the tarn and ended in |
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