The Newcomes Vol 2

Excerpt from The Newcomes, Vol. 2: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family How by degrees this slippery penitent was induced to make other confessions; how we got an idea of Mrs. Rid ley's account from him, of his dealings with Mr. Sher rick, need not be mentioned here. The conclusion to which Colonel Newcome's ambassador came was, that to help such a man would be quite useless; and that the Fleet Prison would be a most wholesome retreat for this most reckless divine. Ere the day was out, Messrs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Newcomes, Vol. 2 of 2: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Amongst all ranks and degrees of painters assembled at Rome, Mr. Clive found companions and friends M The clever est man was not the best artist very often: the ablest artist not the best critic nor the best companion. Many a man could give no account of the faculty within him, but achieved success because he could not help it; and did, in an hour and without effort, that which another could not. Efiect with half a life's labor. There were young sculptors who had never read a line of Homer, who took on themselves, never theless, to interpret and continue the heroic Greek art. There were young painters with the strongest natural taste for low humor, comic singing, and Cider - Cellar jollifications, who would imitate nothing under Michael, Angelo, and whose canvases teemed with tremendous allegories of fates, furies, genn of death and battle. There were long-haired lads who fancied the sublime lay in the Peruginesque.man ner, and depicted saintly personages with crisp draperies, crude colors, and halos of gold-leaf. Our friend marked all these practitioners of Art with their various oddities and tastes, and was welcomedain the:, atel_iers of all of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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