Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 161
, and none have shown a type of beauty so national,or have more truly interpreted with an exquisite poetic sense the distinc-tive domestic refinement or religious thought of our people. It is beautyrather than power that we see expressed in the works of this true poet— 15S AllT IN AMERICA. moral… … THE CHARITY PATIENT. [JOHN ROGERS.] Spring, The White Slave, and The Angel of the Sepulchre; but weprefer to these the exquisitely beautiful bass-reliefs in which he has em-bodied with extreme felicity the domestic sentiments or the yearningsand aspirations of the Christian soul. The radical fault…
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