It's our disadvantage, as you know.

Ruskin and art go together.

I must tell you how Rome made me some amends after all.
Page, the American artist, painted a picture of Robert like an Italian, and then presented it to me like a prince.

It is a wonderful picture, the colouring so absolutely _Venetian_ that artists can't (for the most part) keep their temper when they look at it, and the breath of the likeness is literal.[35] Mr.Page has _secrets_ in the art--certainly nobody else paints like him--and his nature, I must say, is equal to his genius and worthy of it.

Dearest Miss Mitford, the 'Athenaeum' is always as frigid as Mont Blanc; it can't be expected to grow warmer for looking over your green valleys and still waters.