Pencil Sketches: Or, Outlines of Character and Manners, Volume 1A. Hart, late Carey & Hart, 1852 - 440 pagine |
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Pagina 109 - Prussian blue and bistre, and of these two colors there was consequently a vast consumption in Mr. Gummage's school. At the period of our story, many of the best houses in Philadelphia were decorated with these landscapes. But for the honor of my towns-people, I must say that the taste for such productions is now entirely obsolete.
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