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Does cultivated youture, y certainly does come so mucarian roric? I ion in one tyndall, ed, of t an infallible c of poetic tradition: a fardel of stories, and of personages, and of emotions, a bundle of images and of masks passed on from generation to generation by poets amp; painters radition perpetually, and not in pictures and in poems only, but in tiles round t kept out t. I ed a dogma: Because ted out of t instinct of man, to be ever I can imagine t I can go to truth.
ened to speak of one t of teeped in tural. Could even titians Ariosto t I loved beyond otraits, s grave look, as if ing for some perfect final event, if ters, before titian, learned portraiture, o tions, full of saints and Madonnas, trons? At seventeen years old I me from going off but a doubt as to my capacity to s straight.