Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872, Sumichrast, Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de), 1845-1933 · Boston : Little, Brown and company · leaf 178
enishpanes filtering a scanty light that falls upon a tableladen with globes, sextants, almagesta, old necromantic-looking books, and by the side of which meditates, sunkin his arm-chair, an old man in a furred robe, wizard asmuch as philosopher, alchemist as much as doctor. Ifancy I can see the… … GERMAN, FLEMISH, AND DUTCH they recede from the light. Rembrandt has twicerepresented this subject with some variants. In oneof the paintings the philosopher is absolutely alone withhis Faustus accessories ; in the other, domestic life isfelt moving around the dreamer, discreet and silent,walking…
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