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Page 282 - This grave contains all that was mortal of a young English poet, who, on his death-bed, in the bitterness of his heart at the malicious power of his enemies, desired these words to be engraven on his tombstone : " Here lies one whose name was writ in water...
Page 11 - ... coffee were its chief attractions, added to which a greater freedom of speech was permitted, without a strict surveillance of the police, whose spies found their way into all reunions of society ; but this brotherhood of artists and students under the pontifical reign of Pius VIl.
Page 244 - how did you get on to-day with your sitter ? " " He was in a very jocose humor, and remarkably amusing," he replied ; " as I was working with my modelingtool about his eyes he cried out as if he was hurt, ' I say, Signor Tommaso, don't poke that stick into my peepers in that way, I can't stand it ! Softly, my lad, softly.
Page 252 - ... lion is not a safe companion to all persons — three deaths that ought not to be bemoaned : the death of a fat hog, the death of a thief, and the death of a proud prince — three tilings that advance the subject : to be tender to a good wife, to serve a good prince, and to be obedient to a good governor.
Page 15 - Thirty years ago I was on this very spot", and, pointing to different seats, observed, 'There sat Allston opposite me; that was Turner's corner; and there, I was told, Sir Joshua Reynolds and West sat. Thirty years, and I am here again; I come back old and broken with my first and last commission from our government for the Rotunda,— too late! too late!
Page 11 - This place was resorted to, not because of its superior appointments and fare, for it was decidedly one of the smallest, darkest, and untidiest of restaurants ; its central position and superior coffee were its chief attractions, added...
Page 205 - I went to find him the other day, to engage him for more sittings, when his family informed me that he had enlisted as a soldier and left the city." It would be difficult to describe the peculiar smile on Hawthorne's face as he said : " So Christ has gone to the war ! Is it true," he asked, " that there are also models who sit for pictures of the Eternal Father?" I replied in the affirmative : " Two or three old men, with long white beards, who are generally to be seen sitting on the steps of the...
Page 244 - Greenough had not been in Rome for a short visit previous to establishing himself in Florence.) Later in the winter of 1837, Crawford and myself were joined by a young and promising .American student by the name of Philips,1 who had been a pupil of Weir's ; thus making three of us from the United States. That season there were but a small number of Americans here : among them was Commodore Hull, and at the same time, by a curious combination, also his old antagonist the commander of the Guerriere....
Page 244 - ... Eternal City, the best of friends and companions, and we used to call them light and shadow, Commodore Hull being preposterously bulky and his companion notably thin and bony. The victorious captain of the Constitution sat to Crawford for his bust, one of the earliest efforts of his professional career. One day, after he had finished his sitting with the old hero, I met the embryo sculptor at the Lepre, where we usually went for our dinners. "Well, my boy...
Page 18 - Roma, a miserable little sheet, about the size of the New York Herald in its extreme infancy, but very unlike it in purport.