By such Procrustean measurements he adjusts his decisions, and so misses the swarthy romance, the dramatic coarse fire of Salvator, and fails to appreciate the vigorous, affluent, gorgeous majesty of Rubens, before whose luxurious pageant canvas it always seems that, of right, pompous coronation music should be played, and multitudes huzza and banners wave.
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
Two other remarkable prison castles must be mentioned here, Amboise and Angers.
— from Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons by Arthur Griffiths
The only hand reached out to me was that of Russia; policy constrained me to grasp and retain it.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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