passione; i gesti piu
animati e piu vivi ne descrivono la violenza; e cio ch'e piu, essi
variano in cento modi senza uscir mai del naturale, e si attemperano a
cento caratteri senza uscir mai dalla proprieta. L'eroe ha movimenti
da eroe, il volgar da volgare; e quel che non descriverebbe lingua ne
penna, descrive in pochissimi tratti l'ingegno e l'arte di
Raffaello."--p. 65.

"Il paese, gli elementi, gli animali, le fabbriche, le manifatture,
ogni eta dell'uomo, ogni condizione, ogni affetto, tutte comprese con
la divinita del suo ingegno, tutto ridusse piu bello."--p. 71.

I have thought this long extract pardonable as applied to one whose
finest designs are now, through so many channels, rendered familiar to
us.

[119] In a priced catalogue of His Majesty's collection of "Limnings,"
edited by Vertue, is the following entry. "Item, in a slit box-wooden
case, some TWO CARTOONS of Raphael Urbinus for hangings to be made by,
and _the other FIVE are by the King's appointment delivered to Mr.
Francis Cleen at Mortlake, to make hangings by_."--Cartonensia.

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE DAYS OF "GOOD QUEEN BESS."

"A worthie woman judge, a woman sent for staie."

"When Fame resounds with thundring trump, which rends the ratling
skies,
And pierceth to the hautie Heavens, and thence descending flies
Through flickering ayre: and so conjoines the sea and shore togither,
In admiration of thy grace, good Queene, thou'rt welcome hither."

_The Receyving of the Queene's Maiestie
into hir Citie of Norwich._

"We may justly wonder what has become of the industry of
the English ladies; we hear no more of their rich
embroiderings, and curious needlework. Is all the
domestic simplicity of the former ages entirely
vanished?"--Aikin.

The age of Elizabeth presents a never-failing field of variety through
which people of all tastes may delightedly rove, gathering flowers at
will. The learned statesman, the acute politician, the subtle lawyer,
will find in the measures of her Burleigh, her Walsingham, her Cecil,
abundant food for approbation or for censure; the heroic sailor will
glory over the achievements of her time; the adventurous traveller
will explore the Eldoradic regions with Raleigh, or plough the waves
with Drake and Frobisher; the soldier will recal glorious visions of
Essex and Sidney, while poesy wreathes a bay ro