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Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert, 1844- Warner, George H., 1883-1919
Subjects: Literature Literature
Publisher: New York : International Society
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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NAZARETH—THE CARPENTERS SON. Photogravure from a painting by Franz Muller.
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(GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS) ^227 centers here. The youth of the Madonna and the unrecorded years of the Child belong? to Nazareth. Therefore imagination unbends to the sweet associations of domestic life. The little picture in the Uffizi recurs again, and the delicate sketches of Overbeck. illustrating the life of Christ, in which as a blooming boy in his fathers shop he saws a bit of wood into the form of a cross, looking up smilingly to the thoughtful Joseph and the yearning Mary, as when he brings her the passion-flower in the pleasant room. The tranquil afternoon streams up the valley, and your heart is softened as if In- that tender smile of Mary; and yielding to soliciting friars, you go quietly and see where Josephs house stood, and where the Angel Gabriel saluted Mary, and the chimney of the hearth upon which she warmed food for her young child, and baked cakes for Joseph when he came home from work, and the rock whence the Jews wished

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