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He perceived and expressed, moreover, the truth to which so many inferior minds are blind and obstinately senseless : that in art, as in most other things, full understanding and appreciation cannot be reached without that discipline of the. mind and senses which is only to be obtained by association with, and observation and study of, the best works. Digitized by VjOOQIC 92 SHELLEY AND HIS FRIENDS IN ITALY In krt, as in life, we learqi much by experience. With what admirable and elevated humil...ity of mind Shelley wrote from Rome : ** These things are best spoken of whai the mind has drunk in the spirit of their foitns ; and little indeed can I, who must devote no more than a few months to the contemplation of them^ hope to know or feel of their profound beauty.'* To Mr. Gisbome he wrote from Florence that one of hb chief objects in Italy was to observe in statuary and painting "' the degree in which, and the rules according to which, that ideal beauty, of which we have so intense yet so obscure an appre- hension, is realized in external forms/' Shelley visited the galleries on the 13th and 2pth October, so Mary notes in her diary, and on these and subse- quent occasions he must have written those '" Notes on Sculpture " of which he ha;d already written a few in Rome— iiotes which reveal how deeply Shelley appreciated and enjoyed this bnCnch of art.
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