Book of the artists : American artist life, comprising biographical and critical sketches of American artists : preceded by an historical account of the rise and progress of art in America (1870)
Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1813-1871 · New York : G.P. Putnam & Son · leaf 95
tre, win attention from the accessories by the spirit of the mainconception. Copleys Death of Major Pierson thus aifeclingly com-memorates an instance of heroic self-sacrifice ; and, had the requisiteencouragement been given, he would have devoted himself exclusively tothat department of historical… … RT, in its comprehensive sense, appears designed to vindi-cate nature. A genius for a6lion, when thwarted by physicalor moral inaptitude, is often happily exhibited through thehnagination. Thus poetry has been defined as the expressionof unattained desire ; and it is no small consolation to…
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