Author of Beltraffio, The

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«Much as I wished to see him I had kept my letter of introduction three weeks in my pocket-book. I was nervous and timid about meeting him – conscious of youth and ignorance, convinced that he was tormented by strangers, and especially by my country-people, and not exempt from the suspicion that he had the irritability as well as the dignity of genius. Moreover, the pleasure, if it should occur – for I could scarcely believe it was near at hand – would be so great that I wished to think of it in advance, to feel it there against my breast, not to mix it with satisfactions more superficial and usual.»

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Language: English - 60 pages - Contains an Index
Sorted in Classics - American

ISBN (ePub): 1-4121-5752-8

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