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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER VIII
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Then in the long and slender throat, in the turn of it, and the setting on of the head, you have rather a grisette than a goddess.

'Tis over pretty and _petite_, the colour adding, of course, to this effect.
Crawford's studio (the American sculptor) was far more interesting to me than Gibson's.

By the way, Mr.Page's portrait of Miss Cushman is really something wonderful--soul and body together.

You can show nothing like it in England, take for granted.

Indeed, the American artists consider themselves a little aggrieved when you call it as good as a Titian.
'_Did_ Titian ever produce anything like it ?' said an admirer in my hearing.


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