a Great Deal: The Good one Really Does Copy a Great Deal>

[P 33] The great use in copying, ifit be at all useful, should seem to be in learning to colour; . . .

. . . yet even co louring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before

you.

[P 34] . . . you cannot do better than have recourse to nature herself, who is always at hand. . . .

[P 35] Labour to invent on their general principles. . . .how a Michael Angelo or a Raffaelle

would have treated this subject: . . .

Know or See Mich: Ang. or Rafael or any Thing Else>

But as mere enthusiasm will carry you but a little way. . .

[Damn The Fool]

Meer Enthusiasm is the All in All!-- Bacons Philosophy has Ruind England

only Epicurus over again>

[P 36] . . . enter into a kind of competition, by . . . making a companion to any picture that you

consider as a model. . . . and compare them. . . .

[What but a Puppy will dare to do this]

. . . a severe and mortifYing task, . . .

[?Why, should ?comparing[or ?copying] Great Masters [be done] Painfully]

[P 37] [To compare one's work with a Great Master's] requires not only great resolution, but

great humility.

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