American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . A Hotel for Dogs. Drawn by Freer. Paulina. Indeed, my lord, If I had thought the sight of my poor imageWould thus have wrought you (for the stone is mine),I d not have showd it. Leontes. Do not draw the curtain. Paulina. No longer shall you gaze on t, lest your fancyMay think anon it moves. Leontes. Let be, let be. Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already —What was he that did make it ? — See, my lord,Would you not deem it breathd ? and that those veinsDid verily bear blood? Polixenes. Masterly done : The very life
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . A Hotel for Dogs. Drawn by Freer. Paulina. Indeed, my lord, If I had thought the sight of my poor imageWould thus have wrought you (for the stone is mine),I d not have showd it. Leontes. Do not draw the curtain. Paulina. No longer shall you gaze on t, lest your fancyMay think anon it moves. Leontes. Let be, let be. Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already —What was he that did make it ? — See, my lord,Would you not deem it breathd ? and that those veinsDid verily bear blood? Polixenes. Masterly done : The very life seems warm upon her lip. Leofites. The fixure of her eye has motion in t,As we are mockd with art. 206 AMERICAN ART Paulina. I 11 draw the curtain ; My lords almost so far transported thatHe 11 think anon it lives. Leontes. O sweet Paulina, Make me to think so twenty years together;No settled senses of the world can matchThe pleasure of that madness. Lett alone. Paulina. I am sorry, sir, I have thus far stirrd you: butI could afflict you No Room for any more Dogs To-night. Drawn by Freer. Leontes. Do, Paulina; For this affliction has a taste as sweetAs any cordial comfort. Still, methinks,There is an air comes from her: what fine chiselCould ever yet cut breath ? Let no man mock me,For I will kiss her. Patilma. Good my lord, forbear: The ruddiness upon her lip is wet;You 11 mar it if you kiss it, stain your ownWith oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain ? Leontes. No, not these twenty years. Perdita. So long could f Stand by, a looker-on. It will be noted that though Giulio Romano, to whom the play assigns the authorship of thestatue, is not known as a sculptor, the figure is spoken of as painted, which many sculptures, fromthe earliest times, have been. AMERICAN ART 207 Mr. Freer has acquired much favor with the public as a painter of pictures of beautifulwomen. Perhaps his most successful work is A Girl in Black, which was first shown at theNational Academy of
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