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'Quando vivea più glorioso, disse, Liberamente nel campo di Siena, Ogni vergogna deposta, s'affisse. "When at his glory's topmost height," said he, "Respect of dignity all cast aside, Freely he fix'd him on Sienna's plain." CARY. Dante, Purgatory. Cant. xi. l. 133. 'How instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Compared, half-reasoning elephant, with thine. Pope, Essay on Man, i. 221.
Were this operation performed in mosaic work, others of rival excellence might be found. The pavement of Sienna's dome is so disposed by an effort of art one never saw but here, that it produces an effect most resembling that of a very fine and beautiful damask table-cloth, where the large patterns are correctly drawn.
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