The Waverly Gallery of the Principal Female Characters in Sir Walter Scott's Romances (Classic Reprint)

The Waverly Gallery of the Principal Female Characters in Sir Walter Scott's Romances (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Waverly Gallery of the Principal Female Characters in Sir Walter Scott’s Romances

From the great master’s descriptions - is the object of this gallery. This has always been regarded as one of the sun shiny walks of art. Except in the case of that sublime countenance of Homer, which, though originally only the imagination of a Greek artist, has now become the accepted type of the poet, we know of no instance in which the se verer labor of the pencil has been turned in this direction but, on the contrary, it has been rather the painter’s recrea tion. And as such a lighter labor of art, associated from its very beginning with happy thoughts, and the pleasanter mo.

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