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It is a dreadful example for younger artists, and I think Wagner is depraving them.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy

The effect of this is depraving: it contracts the soul, misdirects its energies, and blunts the edge of its spiritual sensibility.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus