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truth of your objection to them. My daily
experience is stumbling on them and
rubs its shins cursing; if you see the
force of the metaphor.

I am sketching (in pencil chiefly) a
good deal. I venture to hope you will
approve of some of the ^sketches in a Ruskinese
point of view: - if you do not, who
will, my sole congenial thinker on
art? There are the most deliciously
graceful Giottesque ashes (should
one say ashs?) here--I do not
mean Giottesque, though, Perugines
que, Fra-Angelical (!), in Raphael's
earlier manner. I think I have told
you that I have particular periods
of admiration for particular things
in Nature; for a certain time I am
astonished at the beauty of a tree,
shape, effect etc, then when the passion,
so to speak, has subsided, it is
consigned to my treasury of explored

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