The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

Lapped in poetry wrapped in the picturesque armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.