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Two great, distinct systems, the shallow, shrinking, timid, but rapturously devotional, piously sentimental school, of which Beato Angelico was facile princeps, painfully adventuring out of the close atmosphere of the miniatori into the broader light and more gairish colors of the actual, and falling back, hesitating and distrustful; and the hardy, healthy, audacious naturalists, wreaking strong and warm human emotions upon vigorous expression and confident attitude; these two widely separated streams of Art, remote from each other in origin, and fed by various rills, in their course through the century, were to meet in one ocean at its close.
But they vanished in a moment, and the clear stars shed abroad their undying lustre, seeming, in their quiet, unfading beauty, a gentle satire on the short-lived and gairish productions of man. "Mighty purty, no doubt," exclaimed Barney. "Is this the Imperor's birth-day?" "No," replied the hermit, shaking his head; "that is the way in which the false priests amuse the people.
In the gairish eye of day, the contemplation of this exquisite landscape would have been neither so affecting to the heart, nor so beautiful to the eye. He, the stranger, had not seen it for years, except in his dreams, and now he saw it in reality, invested with that ideal beauty in which fancy had adorned it in those visions of the night.
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