Excerpt from Cartas Curiosas Escriptas de Roma e de Vienna pelo Abbade Antonio da Costa
Sentimos que as Cartas appareçam sem o no me do nosso amigo (4) que nos era sympathico por mais de uma razão. Fique mais uma vez consignada a nossa gratidão a memoria de um homem que conhecia como poucos em Portugal as nossas tradições artisti cas. Não desejamos accentuar aqui o que lhe devemos, pessoalmente; a sua crítica benevola de nossos traba lhos não inílue no juízo que d'elle fazemos; o que lhe agradecemos é ter elle comprehendido as intenções com que trabalhamos: accordar n'uma classe inteira de artistas, cabidos na lama, o respeito de si proprios o respeito a uma arte que foi um culto para os seus antepassados e que é hoje para elles apenas a vacca que dá leite, ou peior ainda (ª).
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