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Raphael Raphael was therefore decried as being scarcely superior to Sir Frederick Leighton; and one of the early Italian painters, Francesco Bianchi, whom Vasari exhumes in some three or four lines, was praised as possessing a subtle and mysterious talent very different indeed from the hesitating smile of La Jaconde.
"Singular science," ruminated Durtal, raising the fender of his fireplace and warming his feet, "in spite of the railleries of this time, which, in the matter of discoveries but exhumes lost things, the hermetic philosophy was not wholly vain.
It is like resurrecting the dead; he exhumes them from their graves: There was G ; how distinctly he recalls the name and some incident in his school life, and that is all. There was B , a name only. There was R , and the memory of the career he had marked out for himself and his untimely death through a steamboat accident; but of his looks, his voice not a vestige!
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