The Life-Work of George Frederick Watts (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Life-Work of George Frederick Watts To include in the series of "Temple Biographies" one English painter may appear at first sight invidious, but the principle on which the selection is made is not far to seek, and the book itself supplies the only justification needed. The series aims at bringing together the lives of men of genius and character, who, in Mazzini's phrase, are "God's born interpreters." There are indeed many who see within life, and above it, its spiritual significance, who live with a faculty of vision sensitive to impressions of that higher and finer order of being in which all truths find their highest reality, and all relations of life their true order and explanation, but, of these, not many have the further qualification of an intellectual endowment enabling them to interpret what they see, and the self-surrender which makes a man the patient and resolute servant of his own highest ideals. 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.