[107] Donna Cattolica, p. 295.
[108] Lives of the Saints.
[109] 2 St. Peter ii. 9-20.
[110] Dublin Review, April, 1872, p. 413. Month, March-April, 1872, p. 179. See the entire article of F. O’Reilly, which is admirable.
[111] In his lecture on The Prisoner of the Vatican, at St. Paul’s Church, New York.
God’s writ unto our weakness bendeth down,
And with an inner meaning hands and feet
On him bestows whose being knows no bounds.
So holy church an aspect human gives
To Michael and to Gabriel and him
Who made Tobias whole.
Dante’s Paradiso, iv.
[113] Cicero (De Oratore) says that Phidias, when sculpturing a Jove or Minerva, had no model from whom to copy. But in his own mind he set up a certain wondrous type of beauty which came to him by intuition, and, enwrapt in its contemplation, urged art and hand to produce its likeness. It is precisely “that fixed idea which comes into my mind” that Raphael spoke of.
[114] Petrarch.