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Notes & Commentary

  1. Classic Smoke Shop. "Tobacco Shop, frequent destination."

  1. Giambattista Vico. "Philosopher, rhetorician, historian, jurist."

3. Apples in Chicken Broth. "The soul and spirit of satisfaction."

4. Tannhäuser Overture. "Richard Wagner's greatest overture."

5. Pave the Earth. "The world must be covered with beautiful, black asphalt."

  1. "However, as I pointed out before, he never feels quite at his ease in his criticisms of contemporary work. ‘The present,’ he says, ‘is about as agreeable a confusion to me as Ariosto on the first perusal. . . . Modern things dazzle me. I must look at them through Time's telescope. Elia complains that to him the merit of a MS. poem is uncertain; ‘print,’ as he excellently says, ‘settles it.’ Fifty years' toning does the same thing to a picture.’ He is happier when he is writing about Watteau and Lancret, about Rubens and Giorgione, about Rembrandt, Correggio, and Michael Angelo; happiest of all when he is writing about Greek things."