“Is it not that we shall all prize classic simplicity, in phrase or form, more than any jewelled splendour of décadent luxury?” said the Lay Figure.

Yea, that same awful angel with the glaive / Which in disparadising orbit swept / Lintel and pilaster and architrave

… the stamens, which are definite in number, normally obdiplostemonous (namely, the stamens are in two alternating whorls, those of the outer whorl opposite the petals – see Fig. 102) …

wine and cavalierism predominated in his upper story