Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 287
130 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. imitation, as if he liad learned it, not from nature herself, but from those to whom she hadtaught it. We seem to read Venice and the Venetians between the lines, as we read Tennysonand Swinburne between the lines of our budding poets. AVhat would save it, and… … •the daughter of HERODIAS with the head of JOHN THE BAPTIST. FROM THE PICTURE BY HENNER. US to this reflected note, would be the presence of a native vein of poetry, of romantic feeling,if they were windows opening upon a world of faery, such as the true Aenetian pictures are.But they are surely no…
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