pageant quotes

What helps it now, that Byron bore, With haughty scorn which mocked the smart, Through Europe to the Aetolian shore The pageant of his bleeding heart? That thousands counted every groan, And Europe made his woe her own?

- Matthew Arnold
  Poems: Second Series,'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', l.133^8.

The Englishwoman's clothes, too, have improved out of all knowledge†no longer are our hats, as inVictorian days, a kind of Pageant of Empire, whereon the products of all the colonies battle for precedence.

- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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