"Aesthete" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... excite surprise. Lamennais and Victor Hugo she stigmatizes as decousus of the worst kind, and places them in the same rank as Robespierre. The genius of Victor Hugo, so vast, so elevated, and so profound, she could not understand; she could see only its irregularities, like a certain "aesthete" who, when contemplating the water-floods of Niagara, directed his attention to a supposed defect in their curve! Her methodical, matter-of-fact mind was wholly unable to measure the proportions of the gigantic ...
— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams |
