We find throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, breaking through the stifling influence of exotic art, an irrepressible tendency towards the creation of a purely native form of opera.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
A lamp burned on a table in the center of the room; a beautiful thing, glowing like some rare, exotic flower.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
This genuine revolutionary principle did not become conspicuous in England until it was introduced by the contagion from France, and even then it remained an exotic.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen