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Rh and loses the ear of the world. Certainly Landor made this choice, and by it he must stand.

Let us take an example from the best of Landor's work, and from that region of classical art where it is wholly competent,—the brief description of small objects:—

How completely, how distinctly, the image is given,—its form, its transparent purity, its fragile and trembling gold! How free from any other than a strictly artistic charm! And yet how different is its method of appeal from Shelley's

from Shakespeare's

Or, to select an illustration, also of Landor's best, when the image, no less objective, yields of itself an infinite suggestion:—