Excerpt from Titian

Hile collecting my materials for this little work from all available sources, I was weak enough to fancy that I had done almost enough, before I began to read the Life of Titian by Messrs. Crowe and Cavalcaselle, or to yield to the fascinations of the author 0 Cadore. I thought that there was little left to do, save to verify and correct. But once absorbed in the study of that Life, once under the spell of Mr. Gilbert, who seems to have a more genuine sympathy with the spirit of Titian than any other man, I could with dificulty tear myself from these engaging and exhaustive works. I seemed hardly to have power to record in my own language thoughts which I had shared with them - facts which I had gained from them without appearing in the character of a plagiarist. It is idle to mention other authorities by the side of these names. There is nothing left to learn elsewhere, except from the Autobiography which is to be read on the artist's canvases.

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