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truth of your objection to them. My daily
experience is stumbling on them and
rubs its shins cursing; if you see the
force of the metaphor.

I am sketching (in pencil chiefly) a
good deal. I venture to hope you will
approve of some of the ^sketches in a Ruskinese
point of view: - if you do not, who
will, my sole congenial thinker on
art? There are the most deliciously
graceful Giottesque ashes (should
one say ashs?) here--I do not
mean Giottesque, though, Perugines
que, Fra-Angelical (!), in Raphael's
earlier manner. I think I have told
you that I have particular periods
of admiration for particular things
in Nature; for a certain time I am
astonished at the beauty of a tree,
shape, effect etc, then when the passion,
so to speak, has subsided, it is
consigned to my treasury of explored

truth of your objection to them. My daily
experience is stumbling on them and
rubs its shins cursing; if you see the
force of the metaphor.

I am sketching (in pencil chiefly) a
good deal. I venture to hope you will
approve of some of the ^sketches in a Ruskinese
point of view: - if you do not, who
will, my sole congenial thinker on
art? There are the most deliciously
graceful Giottesque ashes (should
one say ashs?) here--I do not
mean Giottesque, though, Perugines
que, Fra-Angelical (!), in Raphael's
earlier manner. I think I have told
you that I have particular periods
of admiration for particular things
in Nature; for a certain time I am
astonished at the beauty of a tree,
shape, effect etc, then when the pas
sion, so to speak, has subsided, it is
consigned to my treasury of explored