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Created on: 29-05-15 12:37

CONSERVATISM

'Had there been another year of peace ,there wold be no Farmhouse'

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'Hooper was no romantic'

'beauty in which extreme youth sings aloud for love and withers at first cold'

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'Where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity'

'How important these girls make themselves with their love affairs'

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'thwarted passion'

NOSTALGIA

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'It was not as it had been'

'Cloudless day in June'

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'The phantoms of those haunted late years began to take flight'

'it is easy prospectively, o endows ones youth with a false precocity or a false innocence'

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'There seemed time for everything in those days'

'I had not forgotten Sebastian he was with me daily in Julia'

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YOUTHFUL INNOCENCE

'Exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth'

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'I was given a brief spell of what i had never known, innocence'

'The langour of youth'

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'...the illusions of boyhood- innocence ,God ,hope!'

'I have left behind illusion'

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ARCADIA

'Steer clear of all religious groups ,they do nothing but harm'

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'It bore the motto: Et in Arcadia ego'

'through those halcyon weeks Julia darted and shone'

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'she knew nothing of war'

IDEALISATION

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'An enchanted garden ....in the heart of that grey city'

'I don't know where id be without the botanical gardens'

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'we ate strawberries and drank wine'

'one of the most beautiful houses I know '

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'I believed myself very near heaven, during those languid days at Brideshead'

'...I made a serious acquaintance with wine'

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Card 2

Front

'beauty in which extreme youth sings aloud for love and withers at first cold'

Back

'Hooper was no romantic'

Card 3

Front

'How important these girls make themselves with their love affairs'

Back

Card 4

Front

NOSTALGIA

Back

Card 5

Front

'Cloudless day in June'

Back

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