Afternoon lectures on literature and art[Fourth series, 1866 . nedfrom age to age, and which, elevated and purified byreligion, is the food of true civilization, and the ani-mating and directing principle of the highest instinctsof our race. The monument of Cardinal Mai, in the church of 132 PALIMPSEST LITERATURE, his title, St. Anastasia, is one of the most interestingworks of modern art in Rome. The lover of letterswill probably regard the hall of the Vatican, in whichthe Mai Library is enshrined, as a still more interestingmemorial of his genius. But I cannot help believingthat, although hi
Afternoon lectures on literature and art[Fourth series, 1866 . nedfrom age to age, and which, elevated and purified byreligion, is the food of true civilization, and the ani-mating and directing principle of the highest instinctsof our race. The monument of Cardinal Mai, in the church of 132 PALIMPSEST LITERATURE, his title, St. Anastasia, is one of the most interestingworks of modern art in Rome. The lover of letterswill probably regard the hall of the Vatican, in whichthe Mai Library is enshrined, as a still more interestingmemorial of his genius. But I cannot help believingthat, although his other services have conferred moresubstantial benefits upon letters, his most lasting claimon the remembrance of posterity will be under thattitle by which the Royal Society of Literature, in pre-senting him with its gold medal, in 1824, commemo-rated his great achievement—Angela Maio, Palimpsest-orum Inventori et Restauratori ;— Angelo Mai, Discoverer and Restorer of Pa-limpsests. THE HISTORY OF THEENGLISH SONNET. BY HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOPOF THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISHSONNET.
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