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...Platt collection are of early modern and late modern origin, and are from the Italian, French, English, and German schools. Among the more important works in the exhibition are "Nude Studies" by Tintoretto, from the De Nicolo collection; "Death of the Baptist", "Rent on the Flight", "Landscape", and "A Hermit, Reading", all by Guercino; drawings for ceiling decorations by Tiepolo; "Head" by Piazetta, and "Nude Studies", by Degas. "Le Vieux Charron", "Nude" by Rodin, "Angel with a Trumpet" by Blake; and a "Study of an Indian Girl" by Kolbe...
...later made chairman of the Democratic Ways & Means Committee to collect money for the 1900 campaign. As a result of a quarrel before that election, he resigned and retired in disgust to the hamlet of Monte Ne, Ark. There in a modest little house, he became something of a hermit, puttering around among the hills, issuing dire predictions on the fate of the nation unless radical economic changes were made. A-summer resort he tried to start became an industrial college for Holy Rollers...
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...father was James Flintham How, vice president and general manager of the Wabash Railroad. Young How entered Meadville Theological School, Unitarian institution at Meadville, Pa. Fellow students termed him eccentric, "crazy," because he gave the poor his allowance, his possessions, everything but meagre necessities. He made his room a hermit-like cell. He wanted to live the life of Christ, he would say. He entered Harvard, where he played football and baseball. His mystic generosity continued. He zealously tried to found a monastic order, The Brotherhood of the Daily Life. He dressed as a laborer and preached...
Baudelaire has been described as "a Prometheus who celebrated the vultures that plucked at his spiritual entrails" and as "a hermit of the Brothel". He has been compared to Dante, to Laforgue, to Swinburne, to Blake, and to a long, long list of other poets. But such clever descriptive phrases as those quoted above from the essays of Mr. De Casseres and Mr. Symons fail to catch the whole man, they fail just as any single attempt at comparison fails. For a true understanding of this most important of all French poets one must turn to his greatest work...