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Excerpt from Memoir of Thomas Uwins, R. A, Vol. 2 of 2: Late Keeper of the Royal Galleries and the National Gallery Librarian of the Royal Academy Etc. Etc. Etc Amongst the masques, too, was the niece of an English bishop (ossory), and the bishop himself amongst the spectators This last fact I give from report, as I need hardly say I was not present. In this way do the English pass their time at Naples. Indeed, this season has been the springtide Of dissipation, and so entirely has my quiet occa pation been broken up by it, that I have had to sit still and do nothing. It would have been quite as easy to catch birds with salt on their tails as to get one of these revellers into a painter's room during the carnival, and now it is all over they beg for time to recover their lost beauty before they can sit for their portraits. I am their confessor against their will. They cannot hide from me their haggard looks. The pallid cheek, the sunken eye, the nerveless fibre, proclaim the reluctant truth, and tell, in terms too plain for attery to conceal, that these are not the purposes for which we ought to live. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.