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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER XI
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If you keep your opinion, why then all artistic Rome is against you without exception.

Nobody likes the sepia-coloured thing of last year in comparison.

Every album in Rome gives up its dead and insists on the new likeness--not only is it considered more like, but so infinitely superior in expression and poetical _convenance_, that it _ought_ to be more like.

So everybody thinks.

With regard to the head, I am of opinion that the head is beautiful, and the eyes singularly full of expression for photographed eyes, but there may be more difference of opinion about the head.


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