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    time > Was exhorted in dream to visit this Paul , and accordingly he travelled two days into the desert . As he continued to walk he observed a centaur approaching him ; but it never occurred to

    Antony that such a monster was rather a curiosity , he only signed the cross and the centaur was constrained to point ( perhaps with one of its legs ) in the direction to Paul ' s

    hermitage , and then run off . He next meets a satyr , who is likewise constrained to declare himself one of the gods that the Gentiles worship , and follow the route of the

    centaur . The phantasmal effect of this is complete ; where these beings come from , or whither they go , is left to the imagination . St Antony proceeds and discovers the cave by a light within . Here the

    abstinent hermit , who had not left his cave for nearly ninety years , is lighting himself to pray with hog ' s grease or whale oil , which it is not necessary to investigate . Then we are told , at great length ,

    that they addressed each other by name , and when the raven arrived , which brought a loaf every day to Paul , it carr ied one of double size ; and the two friends fell into a contest

    who should lift the loaf . The whole narrative , which continues in this strain , ends by Antony paying a second vi&it to Paul , at the desire of the latter , to carry him the cloak of Athanasius . His seeiing the soul of Paul carried

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    over his head as he travels through the desert , and his finding the body of the saint in the posture of prayer on arriving at the cell , present ,, only in a more tangible form , the feelings and ideas on those subjects of the time when painting revived .

    A picture was then something radically different , both in intention and means , from a picture now . Dealing with arcane matters , it employed symbols , now it is totally confined to the imitation of nature

    This fabulous character has of late been made a distinctive term ; those early works in which it predominates are called mythic by the French writers on art . The fixing of a term descriptive of a class

    not before distinguished , is an accession to the history of art j and a profound study of those earliest efforts ma y prove more productive in the elucidation of principles , and in the philosophy of imitation , than that of any later time .

    Leaving the first room of the Louvre , we enter that cqntaining one of the most wonderful pictures ever painted ^ viz . the ' Marriage of , Cana / by Paul Veronese : with

    another of the same subject ( if we recollect rightly ) also by him , though painted in a dryer style , both in design ai ^ d execution . This room contains

    likewise a number of the modern French works . Passing these in the meantime w $ reach the pictures by Raphael , almost at the further end of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/46/