Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 157
metimes like shadows, and sometimes like mountains,and sometimes like spectres, but never like human beings.Believe me, yet once more, in what I told you long since— man can invent nothing nobler than humanity. Hecannot raise his form into anything better than God madeit, by giving it either the… … PARADISE IO7 an angel must look like an angel on the ground, as well asin the air; and the much-denounced pre-Raphaelite faiththat a saint cannot look saintly unless he has thin legs, isnot more absurd than Michael Angelos, that a Sibyl cannotlook Sibylline unless she has thick ones. All that…
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