The Agamemnon of Æschylus La Saisiaz: Dramatic Idyls-Jocoseria (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Agamemnon of Æschylus La Saisiaz: Dramatic Idyls-JocoseriaIt is recorded in the Annals of Art that there was once upon a time, practising so far north as Stockholm, a painter and pie ture-cleaner sire of a less unhappy son Old Muytens and the annalist, Baron de Tesse, has not concealed his profound dissatisfaction at Old Muytens' conceit to have himself had something to do with the work of whatever master of eminence might pass through his hands. Whence it was the Baron goes on to deplore - that much detriment was done to that ex cellent piece The Recognition of Achilles, by Rubens, through the perversity of Old Muytens, who must needs take on him to beautify every nymph of the twenty by the bestowment of a widened eye and an enlarged mouth. I, at least, have left eyes and mouths everywhere as I found them, and this conservatism is all that claims praise for What is, after all, dxe'acvo-ros dpw'eos' N o, neither uncommanded nor unre warded since it was commanded of me by my venerated friend Thomas Carlyle, and rewarded will it indeed become, if I am permitted to dignify it by the prefatory insertion of his dear and noble name. R. B.London, October 1, 1877. Lettres a nu jeune Prince, traduites da Suédois.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.