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"The song whose thunderous chime Eternal echoes render The mournful Tuscan's haunted rhyme, And Milton's starry splendor!" I do not pit rede-craft against hand-craft. They are brothers, partners, consorts, who can work together, as right hand and left hand, as science and art, as theory and practice.
A good idea, however, of one of the phases of Berni's humour may be obtained from the same gentleman's abridgment of the Animali Parlanti of Casti, in which he has introduced a translation of the Tuscan's description of himself and of his way of life, out of his additions to Boiardo's poem.
This street, in short, was to contain all the shops that are called the Tuscan's and the silk-merchant's.
For, through familiarity with that humbler, more purely impersonal and traditional art, a certain mode of being in oneself, which is the special æsthetic mood of the Tuscan's would have become organised and be aroused at the slightest indication of the qualities producing it, so that their presence would never escape one.
One little stream of sunlight through the dingy window burnished her heavy hair to the color of an ancient Tuscan's shield. She flashed a rippling smile at Kenwitz and a look of somewhat flustered inquiry. Kinsolving stood regarding her clear and pathetic beauty in heart-throbbing silence. Thus they came into the presence of the last item of the Instance.
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