Identifier: libraryofworldsbe37warn (find matches)
Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert, 1844- Warner, George H., 1883-1919
Subjects: Literature Literature
Publisher: New York : International Society
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ofRuskin, it yet accords with the prevailing judgment of to-day. Hehimself says of his works that if the future finds no excellence inthem, it must yet recognize <* an ardent wish to do well, . . . withgreat and enduring industry, and a true love for these our arts.»What greater tribute than this modest assertion can be paid to a workaccomplished by a master whom three centuries have pronounced aman of knowledge and intelligence ? RAPHAEL SANZIO From THE large and liberal hand wherewith Heaven is sometimespleased to accumulate the infinite riches of its treasures onthe head of one sole favorite — showering on him all thoserare gifts and graces which are more commonly distributedamong a larger number of individuals, and accorded at longintervals of time only — has been clearly exemplified in the well-known instance of Raphael Sanzio of Urbino. RAPHAEL AS A YOUNG MAN. Photogravure from a painting by himself.
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GIORGIO VASARI 15 25 I No less excellent than graceful, he was endowed by naturewith all that modesty and goodness which may occasionally beperceived in those few favored persons who enhance the gracioussweetness of a disposition more than usually gentle, by the fairornament of a winning amenity, always ready to conciliate, andconstantly giving evidence of the most refined consideration forall persons, and under every circumstance. The world receivedthe gift of this artist from the hand of Nature, when, vanquishedby Art in the person of Michel Angelo, she deigned to be sub-jugated in that of Raphael, not by art only but by goodness also.And of a truth, since the greater number of artists had up tothat period derived from nature a certain rudeness and eccen-tricity, which not only rendered them uncouth and fantastic, butoften caused the shadows and darkness of vice to be more con-spicuous in their lives than the light and splendor of thosevirtues by which man is rendered immortal,— s

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