The life and letters of Washington Allston . ^iW [^ WASHINGTON ALL8T0N 351 shazzar had been proposed, and he had received it that which commended itself to his judgment found no re-sponse in his energy or will. He seemed unable, at this period,to diverge from the path and methods he had followed, thoughthey were carrying him farther and farther from his vigor of youth had passed, its ambitions and its sustaininghopes were gone, when he undertook, single-handed, to completethe difficult and laborious work of reconstructing his great pict-ure on a new theory as to i
The life and letters of Washington Allston . ^iW [^ WASHINGTON ALL8T0N 351 shazzar had been proposed, and he had received it that which commended itself to his judgment found no re-sponse in his energy or will. He seemed unable, at this period,to diverge from the path and methods he had followed, thoughthey were carrying him farther and farther from his vigor of youth had passed, its ambitions and its sustaininghopes were gone, when he undertook, single-handed, to completethe difficult and laborious work of reconstructing his great pict-ure on a new theory as to its perspective. This theory involveda change in the point of sight. He had made it, as he thought,too high for a picture which, from its size, would naturally beplaced above the eye of the spectator. But even a reconstruc-tion so radical could have been accomplished with comparativeease by starting de novo ; much perplexing confusion would havebeen avoided by making on a new canvas the extensive altera-ions involved. To alter the point of sight in a p
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