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With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, 

 And purple-stained mouth, 



he had absolute vision of his subject. The 

 description is marvelously accurate, with 

 the added wonder of inexpressible sugges- 

 tion. What color in that draught ! What 

 alluring bouquet! What iridescence in 

 those magic bubbles! 



Sometimes the phrases used in these 

 happy moments are descriptive of things 

 we all have imagined but have never seen. 

 D. G. Rossetti, in his superbly beautiful 

 ** Blessed Damozel," strikes into view, as 

 with a calcium-flash, a vision of souls as- 

 cending to heaven. They are compared 

 to " thin flames," and what other phrase 

 could be used with such effect? Again, 

 in the same poem, a perfectly human ele- 

 ment is made to relieve an access of 

 extreme artificiality by the sudden state- 

 ment of the fact that the homesick girl's 

 bosom seemed to make 



The bar she leaned on warm. 



Immediately the description is complete, 



and we feel the circuit of sympathy fill 



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