regret to him that she had been so long about a piece of work on
answered. "Never mind how long you are upon a work--no. No one
fools think."
During his long life at Rome, he was much cheered by the presence
him, who was also a sculptor, though of far less merit than John
learned to be a great classical scholar, and to read those Greek
beautiful fanciful stories of gods and heroes he derived all the
strange, wild, odd man, in whom the family genius had degenerated
but lived always upon John Gibson's generous bounty. In John's
heat and dust of Rome--which is unendurable in July and August--to
Tyrol. "I cannot tell you how well I am," he writes on one of
our walks in the woods here. I feel as if I were new modelled."
deserves to be copied here, as it shows the artist's point of view
says, "the famous road begins which passes over the Stelvio into
ascent early in the morning. It is magnificent and wonderful. Man
construction of these roads. Behold the cunning little workman--he
horses over these mighty mountains;' and, by Jove, you are drawn up
England indeed to the one he had left twenty-seven years earlier.
insisted upon giving him a public banquet. Glasgow followed the
honours, hardly knew how tobear his blushes decorously upon him.
queen. Gibson was at first quite disconcerted at such an awful
her like a lady," said a friend; and Gibson, following the advice,
situation. But when he went to arrange with the Prince Consort
measuring the face, which he always did for portrait sculpture with
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