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[Artists. . . ?Heavens ?Fool the hxxx Pxxxx as xxxxm]

![P 7] . . . the wisdom and generosity of the Institution: . . .

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[P 9] Raffaelle . . . had not the advantage of studying in an Academy; but all Rome, and the

works of Michael Angelo in particular, were to him, an Academy.

I do not believe that Rafael taught Mich. Angelo or that Mich. Ang: taught Rafael.,

any more than I believe that the Rose teaches the Lilly how to grow or the Apple tree

teaches the [Pine tree to bear Fruit] tree how to bear Fruit.> I do not believe the

tales of Anecdote writers when they militate against Individual Character

. . . the minute accidental discriminations of particular. . .objects, . . .

Minute Discrimination is Not Accidental All Sublimity is founded on Minute

Discrimination

[P II] . . . models. . . for their imitation, not their criticism.

[P 13] A facility in composing,--a lively, and what is called a masterly, handling of the chalk or

pencil, are, it must be confessed, captivating qualities to young minds, and become of course the

objects of their ambition.

The Following sentence is Supremely Insolent
Reasons Why this Sentence should be begun by the Words A Facility in Composing I

cannot tell unless it was to cast [an Eye] stigma>upon Real facility in Composition

by Assimilating it with a Pretence to & Imitation of Facility in Execution or are we to

understand him to mean that Facility in Composing. is a Frivolous pursuit. A Facility

in Composing is the Greatest Power of Art & Belongs to None but the Greatest Artists

i.e. the Most Minutely Discriminating & Determinate>!

[P 14] Whilst boys. . . they have taken the shadow for the substance; and make the mechanical

felicity the chief excellence of the art, . . .!

. . . pleased with this premature dexterity in their pupils, . . . praised their dispatch at the expence

of their correctness.

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