...an impertinence. What signify the hubbub, the shifting scenery, the fantoccini figures, the bustle, the idle fashions without, when compared with the...Here is the mind's true home. The contemplation of tnith and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense...

...with beauty, they frown severest grace. We are abstracted to another sphere, we breathe Empyrean air. Here is the mind's true home. The contemplation of...beauty is the proper object for which we were created." He visits all those splendid collections of the Italian, the Flemish and the Spanish schools, of which...

...with beauty, they frown severest grace. We are abstracted to another sphere, we breathe Empyrean air. Here is the mind's true home. The contemplation of...beauty is the proper object for which we were created." He visits all those splendid collections of the Italian, the Flemish and the Spanish schools, of which...

...himself; and to sit in a good gallery is for him what Jeremy Taylor calls ' a little antepast of heaven': Here is the mind's true home. The contemplation of...which calls forth the most intense desires of the mind, and of which it never tires. . . . There are only three pleasures in life, pure and lasting,...

...and to sit in a good gallery is for him what Jeremy Taylor calls ' a little antepast of heaven ' : Here is the mind's true home. The contemplation of...which calls forth the most intense desires of the mind, and of which it never tires. . . . There are only three pleasures in life, pure and lasting,...

...with their eyes; we live in time past, and seem identified with the permanent form of things . . . Here is the mind's true home. The contemplation of...desires of the soul, and of which it never tires." The 'permanent form of things' are perceived not through a Wordsworthian meditation upon nature, but...

...idle fashions without, when compared with the solitude, the silence, the speaking looks, the uwfading forms within? Here is the mind's true home. The contemplation...intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.23 This is not to suggest that the eighteenth century was unanimous about art museums. Right...

...and seem identified with the permanent forms of things. The business of the world at large. and even its pleasures. appear like a vanity and an impertinence....intense desires of the soul. and of which it never tires.22 This is not to suggest that the eighteenth century was unanimous about art museums. Right...

...and seem identified with the permanent forms of things. The business of the world at large, and even its pleasures, appear like a vanity and an impertinence....desires of the soul, and of which it never tires." This is not to suggest that the eighteenth century was unanimous about art museums. Right from the...

...and seem identified with the permanent forms of things. The business of the world at large, and even its pleasures, appear like a vanity and an impertinence....intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.23 This is not to suggest that the eighteenth century was unanimous about art museums. Right...