The Magazine Antiques, October 1st, 2005
That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667, Book 8, lines 191-194 The nineteenth century in France and England was the golden age of private life. Children came to be regarded as unique personalities in their own right, and there was a new exaltation of self in literature and art. Where the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century conceived of man as a noble creature of reason, the romantics of the nineteenth century singled out individuals, each distinctiv...
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