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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER X
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He is the American artist, Page, an earnest, simple, noble artist and man, who carries his Christianity down from his deep heart to the point of his brush.

Draw him out to talk to you, and you will find it worth while.

He has learnt much from Swedenborg, and used it in his views upon art.

Much of it (if new) may sound to you wild and dreamy--but the dream will admit of logical inference and philosophical induction, and when you open your eyes, it is still there.
He has not been successful in life--few are who are uncompromising in their manner of life.

When I speak of life, I include art, which is life to him.


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