A LOST LOVE. BY ASHFORD OWEN. "C'est bien à l'amour qu'il en faut venir à toute époque, en toutes LONDON: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 65 CORNHILL. 1855. 249. X. 412. PREFACE. "THEY tell in Florence and Milan 66 many anecdotes, which may be either true or false, of "the immortal Benvenuto Cellini. They told 66 me that he would sometimes begin a vase " and model its form and proportions with care, but when he proceeded to its execu"tion, he became so engrossed by some figure 66 66 or some particular festoon, that he heedlessly enlarged the first to poetize it, and displaced "the other that it might take a more graceful 66 curve: then, carried away by the love of detail, he forgot the work itself for its orna "ments; and, perceiving too late the impossi |