It rivets the attention, realizes the greatest amount of enjoyment, and facilitates reference. My Hunt library contains a number of association volumes that have interest. They reflect the literary views of their former owner. It was Hunt's habit to mark freely the books be read. But most pleasing of all to us was his habit of writing in the margin comments on the text.
Evidence only can shew.
Our author has not yet proved, though he has strangely and ingeniously asserted, that Claude and others may not have given truer and more lasting impressions of Nature with their generalities, than Mr. Turner with all his particulars. And meantime the violent and disrespectful tone of his assumptions is against him. A conflagration of carrots is not a blaze of precious stones. And there are many other notes equally as caustic in this attractive book. In the collection is a set, six volumes, of Napier's Florentine History , London, Moxon, 1846.