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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