#mediaeval

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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#art #back #believe #bring #fancy

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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#beauty #churches #every #feels #heart

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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#got #hold #honor #inheritance #know