"Parvenue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with her hands full of gifts and her bounty to astronomy, microscopy and chemistry made her name blessed among these, her elder sisters. Art, always more conservative, hung back. But slowly jealous Art who first frowned and called the rest of her brood around her, away from the parvenue, has let her come near, has taken her hand, and is looking her over with questioning eyes. Soon, without doubt, she will have her on her lap with ...
— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore |
