Miscellanies (Second Series) (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Miscellanies (Second Series) Donne will remember in what strange wise the great Dean of St. Paul's caused his last likeness to be drawn. Wrapped in a winding sheet tied with knots at his head and feet, and his hands so placed, as dead bodies are usually fitted to be shrouded and put into the grave, with his eyes shut, and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean, pale and death-like face - he was depicted by a choice Painter, and was thus afterwards carved in stone on the monu ment which stands in the southeast aisle of St. Paul's. The history of Art has seldom to record such unshrinking departures from the orthodox half and three-quarter lengths, looking to left or right, which people our galleries. But in the national collection at St. Martin's Place is a portrait which, in some measure, deviates as frankly from the conventional, and yet belongs to an epoch far less imaginative than that of Donne. It represents a figure in a bed, the curtain of which is turned back. The heap' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.