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Francisco Goya is one of those artists who seem both to transcend their time and to epitomize it. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (I hold nothing alien from me that has to do with human nature), wrote the Roman poet Terence. This motto was lived out to the fullest degree by certain 19th century geniuses. Charles Dickens, with his insatiable interest in character and narrative, was one. In a more abstract way--music being an abstract art anyway--so was Beethoven, in his creation of equivalents for the human passions. And so, in the domain of the visual...
...convenimus, alumni et amici Universitatis nostrae, in hoc loco quem omnes Harvardiani praecipue fovent coluntque,--in prisco campo, ut ita dicam, studiorum nostrorum. Permuitas hominum actates; ex hoc loco, memoria discipulorum consecrato, profecti sunt per magnas terras ad solis occasum multi, moribus mentibusque bene instituti ut laboribus suis genus humanum ad meliora ducant...
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