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His next public effort, an Address before the Literary Society of his Alma Mater, was in the same vein. He improved the occasion of the recent death of four distinguished members of that fraternity to delineate his beautiful ideal of the jurist, the scholar, the artist, and the philanthropist, aided by the models furnished by the lives of such men as Pickering, Story, Allston, and Channing.
He has engaged historical pictures of Allston, Vanderlyn, Sully, and myself, and landscapes of the principal landscape painters, for a gallery on board the boat. I consider this as a new and noble channel for the encouragement of painting, and in such an enterprise and in such company I shall do my best.
Poetry: Bryant, Dana, Halleck, Longfellow, Willis, Lowell, Allston, Hillhouse, Drake, Whittier, Hoffman, and others. 5. The Transcendental Movement in New England. 6. Miscellaneous Writings: Whipple, Tuckerman, Curtis, Briggs, Prentice, and others. 7. The Encyclopaedia Americana. The New American Cyclopaedia.
Letter to Allston on sale of his "Dead Man restored to Life." Also apologizes for hasty temper. Reassured by Allston. Humorous letter from Leslie. Goes to New Hampshire to paint portraits. Concord. Meets Miss Lucretia Walker. Letters to his parents concerning her. His parents reply. Engaged to Miss Walker. His parents approve. Many portraits painted. Miss Walker's parents consent.
Both of these sects, furthermore, had prayer meetings, according to the rules of the plantation, on two nights of each week. Thus while Middleton endeavored to school his slaves in his own faith, Allston encouraged them to seek salvation by such creed as they might choose.
I felt as if her beauty was all about the room, and that I was in it, and therefore beautiful too. It seemed just so with Waldo's soul-beauty." She had been in communication with others of the leading spirits of that day besides Emerson. Dr. Channing and Allston sent her messages, kindly and flattering, about her drawings and painting. She had copied some of Allston's pictures.
Morse, after Allston, was probably the best prepared and most fully educated artist of his day, and should have received the attention of the Government and a share of the distributions in art commissions." That his efforts were appreciated by his fellow artists and by the cultivated people of New York is thus modestly described in a letter to his parents of November 18, 1825:
The paintings of Washington Allston are the most noteworthy lions in Boston; the statues of Powers command admiration even in London.
In considering Sumner's oratory, we should bear in mind what Coleridge said to Allston, the painter, "never judge a work of art by its defects." His sentences have not the classic purity of Webster's, and his delivery lacked the ease and elegance of Phillips and Everett.
I think there cannot be a stronger proof that human nature is always the same than that men of genius in all ages have been compelled to undergo the same disappointments and to pass through the same routine of calumny and abuse." The rest of this letter is missing, which is a great pity, as it would be interesting to read what Morse had to say of Allston, Leslie, and the others.
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