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The Portrait of a Lady
- It was moreover a seat of ease, indeed of luxury, telling of arrangements subtly studied and refinements frankly proclaimed, and containing a variety of those faded hangings of damask and tapestry, those chests and cabinets of carved and time-polished oak, those angular specimens of pictorial art in frames as pedantically primitive, those perverse-looking relics of medieval brass and pottery, of which Italy has long been the not quite exhausted storehouse.†
Chpt 22pedantically = with too much concern for formal rules, details, or book learning
- He was a bright, free, generous spirit, he had all the illumination of wisdom and none of its pedantry, and yet he was distressfully dying.
Chpt 33 *pedantry = excessive concern for details or book learning
Definition:
too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning