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sore it is that he osten rought out, illi great felicityan force, some simple laesing som fixe in os Character common to a class, but id nolicare toascend to the highest heaven os invention or sti thedemtis of imaginatio an passion Natur Wa perceived by him, atherothan imagine&; and e transferre rather than transfigure her heness. Asia consequence, his Woas delight more than move, interest more than arrest. In a rem habie helch lest bellin him o an intende picture os Wishar administering the Sacramen before his execution, hereis one trul idea head,-a monk, Whoiis vertooking the ouchin solemni , an in hos pinched, Wimere face are concentrate the utiermos bigotry, malice an vilenes of nature, his ruel mali eyes gleamin as set on rem heli. Duncan' mindWas romantic rather than historical We se this in his fine picture of Prince Charies'sinu into Edin- burgh. He bring that great pageant out o it o time intomum, ather than send usiactato it Thisarose, a We have aid, sto the objective tum os his minil and would have rendere him unsui Passe in
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the representationis contemporaneous eventa. Whal
thei originals He put an epitome o a man 'scharacter into ne look. The lihenes os Dr Chal. mers has omething of everythin in him, he n- consciousnes of Childhood, the sermur os victorious man hood,-the cis contemplativenes of old age,-- the dream inexpressive ye o genius, in Whicli his foui es, lihe must shimbering on it instrument, ready to a he when called-the entire loveabienessos the man-the ght of his countenance,-his ea- veni Smile, re at there, and will an to stertimes the expres image of his person Ho ex
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There Was omelliing moumsul an touchin in the nature an progress of the ast lines of this great artist. His uni estin enero, his mani diligence, urged hi beyon his poWers his brain gave Way, and linilnes crepi lowly on him. It was asori os melanchol consolation that, a the digeaseaduanced his intense susceptibilit and activit vere subdued, honesthei exercise mus have ni PrΟ- duce miser an regret. What is no infinitelymore important is that hos who kne hina est have litile do i that while the ou ard worid, illiit cares, ita honours, iis ondrous beau ty, iis ain stio , xva gro in clim, and ast vanishing away, the yes of his understandin hecam more and more enlightened, and that he die in the aith os thetruth. I so hesis, we ma res assured in a regionwhere his intense perception of heauty, his delight inest lovel forins and in the goodlines os ali visiblethings, ill have fui exercise nil satisfaction, and where tha gist,hicli lae carries illi him asin partis himself,il be dedicate to the glorum it Giver, uic ather of Lighis.
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Veteli everit to e more than a pleasant dream, that in the regions of the lessed acti mani hali retes for eve his innate gisis, and shal receive and give delicti by thei specific exercise Such a though gives, as it ought to this life an a uiui, ut no undelighim significance He ho in his foui,
and by a necessit of his nature, poetaor a pestiter, vili, in a Spiritual sense rem ain sorio ever.
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Ve hali neve larget his picture. Ita. us ane sensation, a new and chigher notionis,hat themind of man ca put into, and bring out o clandScapepainting ho v ita representative and suggestive truth-fulnes may he perfeci, forining the materia elementa, -th body ascit ere, of the picture,-While, at the Same time, there a be superadde that fine senseo the undefinable relatio of the visibie ori tomenta emotion, hicli is iis essene an vivib ing
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that distance and e gives us ali it characte istic Sthat ould care that tength, an no more. He is determine to give an dea, no a Copy, Os an ah.
set down resulis of strat, o the cause of theseresulis. His a is the true aesthetic, the other is the scientifiC.
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sacilit in dra in leg and arnis in ali conceivablepositions considerable dramati power in placin his figures, and a sortis strikin stage effeci, that mahes altogether a smari, effective scene and i he hadbeen able to colour like Wilhie, there ould have
and that indu od sittin in dropsica dignity
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seature anil movement are the two ad omen,
Blamey. The introductio of them in 'o the stor is almost the only lemisti of that exquisite iece, and we have stili es pleasure in seein thei portraiis. How different rom ogariti's terribi pictures os the fame miserable Classu There o se in truth; you an imagine the past and the future, as et as
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as ad an no so good a the cene in the Brochen in Gethe' Faust. Mr. aclis may findis list 1 subjecta more gratem to the mora sense, more sorhis and that of his spectators, an cedi
bes powers of his mind, an ali the cras of his hand in Phil. v. 8. Robin Hood was ather euer, hecause there Were sewer omen in it; ut e could never et Myond that universat mn hicli it seeme the main functio os Robin an hic mente men to sustain. O the landscape e ma say, as e di os his figures and likie's, that it a in ver respectrihe
IV have been assured by thos Whoseo te elino in other matters t be excellent that MnMaclis is a great genius, a man es me imagina, tion and that hic Sleepin Beauty, his cene stomMacbeth aia some thers, arenthe proos of this. Ne inest,ait tili , se them, and ope to e Converte Whe w do; ut meanwhile, We suspectilia his Imaginatio ma tum out to e mererin , hic are a different, the one sto theother, as Word -- is sto dee humour. or Is
ueen ab a purei sancisu description is DomMiranda ori Ariel Fanc is aggregative an a sociative, imagination iis creative, motive. As Vortasn orth in one os his preface heautimii says
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is the plaything the other the ood, the elixi of the foui. Ait great poets, as Homer Shahspere, Milion, and Burns have both faculties, and n fit, ori sor ach and o have the great ainters Titiata, Veronese, Alber Durer, Hogariti, Wilhie sus