Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 105
dangerous beast; we shrink from the recital of a 78 rAINTING. horror as we would from the reality of a frightfulspectacle. The orator who is meditating his ha-rangues, and who wishes to electrify his imaginaryaudience, needs to move, to keep step with hisspeech, as Rousseau did when along the… … ATTITUDE OF AHAZ, BY MICHAEL ANGELO. (Sistine Chapel.) Angelo, decorating the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,wished to paint Preoccupation, in the figure ofIsaiah, it was in the depths of his own spirit hefound the lines to express the attention of a thinkerwhom nothing can distract from his…
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