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Morse deprecates lack of spirit in New England and rejoices at Wellington's victories. Allston's poems. Morse coat-of-arms. Letter of Joseph Hillhouse. Letter of exhortation from his mother. Morse wishes to stay longer in Europe. Amused at mother's political views. The father sends more money for a longer stay. Sidney exalts poetry above painting. His mother warns him against infidels and actors.
Letter from the father on economies and political views. Morse deprecates lack of spirit in New England and rejoices at Wellington's victories. Allston's poems. Morse coat-of-arms. Letter of Joseph Hillhouse. Letter of exhortation from his mother. Morse wishes to stay longer in Europe. Amused at mother's political views. The father sends more money for a longer stay.
When Englishmen say that no great work of art has been produced in America; that Allston's magnificent pictures remain half-finished; that neither Emerson or Lowell has been able to write a book, but only essays; that we have no historian as good as Macaulay, and that the best of our poetry consists of ballads and other short pieces; my reply is, "The Scarlet Letter" and "The Marble Faun."
I went to the Athenaeum Gallery on Monday morning, and in the evening Hawthorne came and said that he went to the Allston gallery on Saturday afternoon. I went to Allston's on Tuesday evening. He was in delightful spirits, but soft as a summer evening. He seemed transported with delight on hearing of your freedom from pain, and was eager to know what you were going to paint.
It will be as large, I think, as Mr. Allston's famous one, which was ten feet by fourteen." It can hardly be wondered at that the parents should have been somewhat anxious, when we learn from letters of June, 1814, that they had not heard from their son for seven months.
"If I am prohibited from writing or thinking of politics, I hope my brothers will not be so ungenerous as to give me any.... "Mr. Allston's large picture is now exhibiting in the British Gallery.
But after indulging in this dream, it occurred to him that it was not so much a natural aptitude for the art as the lovely scenery and Allston's companionship that had attracted him to it. He saw something of Roman society; Torlonia the banker was especially assiduous in his attentions.
Good taste and good manners would not be conspicuous if all around possessed the same manners." Still painting. Thoughts on art. Picture of the Louvre. Rejection as painter of one of the pictures in the Capitol. John Quincy Adams. James Fenimore Cooper's article. Death blow to his artistic ambition. Washington Allston's letter. Commission by fellow artists. Definite abandonment of art.
Accidentally, of course, I had a seat just in front of the honored guest; saw him take a pinch of snuff out of Washington Allston's box, and heard him joke with old President Quincy. Was there ever such a night before in our staid city? Did ever mortal preside with such felicitous success as did Mr. Quincy? How he went on with his delicious compliments to our guest!
But after indulging in this dream, it occurred to him that it was not so much a natural aptitude for the art as the lovely scenery and Allston's companionship that had attracted him to it. He saw something of Roman society; Torlonia the banker was especially assiduous in his attentions.
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