American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 265
nd curling round a pale, expressive countenance.Everything about him spoke the man of intellect and refinement. His conversation was copious,animated, and highly graphic, warmed by a genial sensibility and benevolence, and enlivenedat times by a chaste and gentle humor. He was exquisitely sensitive… … Pen-drawing by Allston. contemplated the sublime statue of Moses by Michael Angelo, and his mute awe and reverenceon entering the stupendous pile of St. Peters. Indeed, the sentiment of veneration, so charac-teristic of the elevated and poetic mind, was continually manifested by him. His eyes…
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