[audiobook] Art and Celebrity by John A. Walker at Arts-Photography

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The following lectures were the most important piece of my literary work done with unabated power; best motive; and happiest concurrence of circumstance. They were written and delivered while my mother yet lived; and had vividest sympathy in all I was attempting;mdash;while also my friends put unbroken trust in me; and the course of study I had followed seemed to fit me for the acceptance of noble tasks and graver responsibilities than those only of a curious traveler; or casual teacher.Men of the present world may smile at the sanguine utterances of the first four lectures: but it has not been wholly my own fault that they have remained unfulfilled; nor do I retract one word of hope for the success of other masters; nor a single promise made to the sincerity of the students labor; on the lines here indicated.