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Art and nature under an Italian sky (1852)

Dunbar, Margaret Juliana Maria · Edinburgh : Thomas Constable and Co. ; London : Hamilton, Adams, and Co. · leaf 188

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urse has been,And every work he tried, if bad or good.Now do those lofty dreams, my fancys brood,Which made of Art an idol and a queen,Melt into air, and now I feel—how keen !—That what I needed most I must withstood.Ye fabled joys, ye tales of empty love,What are ye now, if two-fold death be nigh… … ell might Gibbon pronounce St. Peters themust glorious temple that ever was raised forthe purpose of religious worship. At each;M successive visit it has grown upon us in vast-ness and beauty, until we have felt as thoughthe idea of it were becoming too vast for themind to master by rules and…

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