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                                                                      	- (and middle age sculpture - as Noah - where the birds
                                                                      are really and truly alive - though not half so well cut)
                                                                      all these[d] arabesques I say are very graceful and wonder-
                                                                      ful - as sharply cut as it is possible to cut marble - and 
                                                                      as brainless as the common penmanship of Wm. Butterworth
                                                                      Esq;  One wants a name for such sculpture - it ought to
                                                                      be called Chiselmanship.
                                                                       The Sarcophagus is carried by the cardinal virtues as
                                                                      usual.  I got up to examine them:  It is impossible
                                                                      to express their utter insipidity.  I never saw human
	The constant recurrence of the leaf form is perfectly                faces so wanting in meaning:  They are all however
nauseating.                                                           properly long nosed and wreathy haired a la Diane  and
                                                                      round thighed:  The Temperance has perhaps the most of
                                                                               shallow and simple in her;  and observe that instead of the
                                                                      vase with the curved stream of water - as in the good
                                                                      times, she has only the empty flagon - which - en re-
                                                                      vanche is well carved at the lip and a great way down in-
                                                                      side.  How little the man who cut them these vile lay
                                                                      figures could have felt what a Virtue was.
                                                                      Of all virtues however, he is most wanting in Honesty - 
                                                                      From the sarcophagus I ascended to the figure:  (I was
                                                                      struck at first by the excessive awkwardness and want of
                                                                      feeling in the lie of the hand towards the 

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