Wiltshire by Edith Olivier

Author:Edith Olivier [Olivier, Edith]
Language: eng
Format: epub

“Among the middling class of inhabitants in this city, I have observed, with much pleasure, a characterising propensity, which seldom prevails with the sons of trade in a country town; I allude to their habit of collecting pictures, and decorating their houses with the productions of celebrated artists. This conduct is nobly praiseworthy, when guided by the hand of taste, and limited by the control of reason. A new world is open to those who derive pleasure through the medium of the finer senses; who forego the sorceries of Circe, and the orgies of Bacchus, for the rational delights of intellectual gratification. This peculiar bias of the people of Salisbury may be ascribed to the operation of two causes. The many show-houses in the vicinity of the city, occasions a great influx of strangers, who by conversation and enquiry in the subject of the polite arts, excite a liberal curiosity; and the exertions of a public-spirited individual, who has opened a gallery for the exhibition and sale of eminent pictures. His collection is composed of many valuable pieces.”

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