Sisters Abroad (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...propor-; ART. 135 lions, its graceful draperies of green vines, and rich lights, never seemed so impressive before. I have seen the Suonatore, the engraving of which is 's favorite; it is sometimes said to be a likeness of Raphael himself, but is called, from the Italian, the " Violin Player." It is one of the few best pictures in Eome. Here you gather up, little by little, the endless objects, and make them a part of yourself--of the heart; a sadness hangs over it all, and yet an exhilaration from the very atmosphere, touches it to life. I do not expect to find any place so imposing or so free. I have been to the museum of the capitol, and stood by the Dying Gladiator. As I looked at the sinking form, thinking of his young barbarians, and their Dacian mother, --with the distant Colosseum full in view, and, the arena seemed to swim round me, also, --May came and stood, very still, by my side, for some minutes. At last, she broke out as if summing up all the evidence: " Well, he looks rather grunty " Amid the revulsion of feeling this occasioned, I was forced to admit that, like her papa, she was coming to art by the way of severe criticism. 136 SPRING. The last of February we had some cold days, and saw icicles hanging on the great beard of the Triton in Piazza Barberini. How much I miss you all, and wish for you here in these mild spring days, and in the moonlit Colosseo; at vespers in St. Peters; in galleries and villas; on the campagna, where the daisies are putting up their pink heads; and when looking over to Tivoli or Frascati. To this last, Will went this week, on a pic-nic, with some Italians, and in waltzing rather too briskly against a folding-door, which burst open, he came near the honor of upsetting a Cardinal, who was dozing over his...