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This halloork of genius shohat pictorial art, devoutly

exercised, , as it

does, deeperthe him tenderer to be impressed by them, than the most

eloquent words of preacher or prophet

It is not of pictures like the above that galleries, in Rome or

elsewhere, are made up, but of productions i to be appreciated by a very different frame of mind Few

amateurs are endoith a tender susceptibility to the sentiment of

a picture; they are not won from an evil life, nor anywise morally

improved by it The love of art, therefore, differs widely in its

influence from the love of nature; whereas, if art had not strayed away

froht to soften and sweeten

the lives of its worshippers, in even a ree than the

contemplation of natural objects But, of its own potency, it has no

such effect; and it fails, likewise, in that other test of itsupon it It cannot

corows diirl wandered through those long galleries, and over

thewhat had

become of the splendor that used to bearew sadly critical, and conde that she ont

to admire Heretofore, her sympathy went deeply into a picture, yet

seemed to leave a depth which it was inadequate to sound; now, on the