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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
which flames so along the walls of the Louvre, where his canvas is spread for several rods. As you pass from these rooms to the dining-room, you go through a gallery of surpassing grace and proportions, which is occupied by a collection of antique statues and busts, the completest in England, —a Pythian Apollo, a Venus with a veil, a Meleager, a Faun in most beautiful preservation, a Neptune, a Diana (for sending which from Rome the old Lord Leicester was thrown into prison) ,with busts of Seneca and Cornelius Sylla,—the latter said to be the only one that has come down to us. I have only mentioned some of the principal ones. And you dine with noble and almost colossal heads of Juno and of Lucius Verus looking from their high niches down upon you. You have heard much of the manuscripts at Holkham, which were arranged and put in order by the late Mr. Roscoe; Roscoe's Life of William Roscoe, Vol. II. pp. 256, 262. this also is called the completest collection of the kind in Englan