EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EXTREMES 



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Everywhere, in fact, the manufacture of the beauties The craze 



for inf or- 



of nature, of sham temples, artificial ruins, and orna- maiity. 

 mental farms was wholesale. To be in keeping with 

 the landscape, ladies masqueraded as goddesses or milk- 

 maids, according to whether they graced a classic or 

 a rustic scene. Simplicity was a pose, while nature 

 was a mass of deceitful illusions. At the close of the 

 century, as Mr. Sedding remarks, " formality gone mad 

 was supplanted by informality gone equally mad." 



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