[115] Lombardy.
[116] Canova made the observation to Napoleon that the artistic monuments of Rome are religious, or placed under the guardianship of religion. Religion had saved the treasures of antiquity in the time of the barbarians, and multiplied them anew in later days.
[117] Overbeck’s principal work, perhaps, is the great piece in the Frankfort Museum, where he has represented the triumph of religion in art. He himself has explained it in a little book.
[118] A foreign artist said to me that in his archæological researches he did not stop at Rome, because there there was nothing mediæval. Didron, in his Archæological Bulletin, counts here fifty Gothic constructions, and declared that in monuments of the middle ages Rome was no less rich than Rouen, the most Gothic city in France.
[119] Chips from a German Workshop. By Max Müller. New York: Scribner & Co.
[120] See Kühner’s Gr. Grammar, translated by Messrs. Edwards and Taylor, London and New York, 1859, § 234 (i.), with regard to the force of the verbal adjective. The word in the Greek text of Tischendorf, Ed. Sept., is γνωστὸv.
[121] “Let him receive the palm who has deserved it.”
[122] Ecclus. xliv. 1, 15.
[123] “The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom shall I fear?... Wait on the Lord, act bravely, let thy heart be strengthened, and wait for the Lord.”
[124] Luke vii. 33.