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Rage!"
Stuff! It means terror! This!"
Imbecility!"
Fool! It is smothered ferocity! Now this!"
Joy!"
Oh, perdition! Any ass can see it means insanity!"
Expression! People coolly pretend to read it who would think themselves
presumptuous if they pretended to interpret the hieroglyphics on the
obelisks of Luxor--yet they are fully as competent to do the one thing as
the other. I have heard two very intelligent critics speak of Murillo's
Immaculate Conception (now in the museum at Seville,) within the past few
days. One said:
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Oh, the Virgin's face is full of the ecstasy of a joy that is complete
-that leaves nothing more to be desired on earth!"
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The other said:
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Ah, that wonderful face is so humble, so pleading--it says as plainly as
words could say it: 'I fear; I tremble; I am unworthy. But Thy will be
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