“City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!” ShouldShowsSeemsCitiesGoneModernShould HaveBusySensesVenice Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.” ShowsToo MuchSafeDistanceCustomersShoppingPersuasionTrout Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.” MenMomentsCharacterShowsWantedSpiritualBornNobleExperimentsSensitiveWildernessSpiritual LifeOrthodoxyBegin AgainNoble Character Author:Mary Augusta Ward