Abstract
to gaze upon certain of the highest achievements of human power,achievements, moreover, which, from their visible and tangible nature, are particularly well adapted to represent to the imagination the maximum of man's creative force. So wide is the interval between the great Italian monuments of art and the works of the colder genius of the neighboring nations, that we find ourselves willing to look upon the former as the ideal and the perfection of human effort, and to invest the country of their birth with a sort of half-sacred character.
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