[P 139] . . . if the Figures. . . had a modern air. . . how ridiculous would Apollo appear instead
of the Sun; . . .
[P 141] . . . the lowest style will be the most popular. . . ignorance. . .
[P 142] . . . our Exhibitions. . . a mischievous tendency, . . . seducing the Painter to an ambition
of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude. . . .
DISCOURSE VI
[P 144, back of title
When a Man talks of Acquiring Invention & of learning how to produce Original
Conception he must expect to be calld a Fool
The Man who that the Genius is
Hired Knave cares not for the Few. His Eye is on the Many. or rather on the Money>
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[P 147] Those who have [written of art as inspiration are better receive] than he who attempts to
examine, coldly, whether there are any means by which this art may be acquired. . . .
not Born. but Taught.--Is a Knave
It is very natural for those. . . . who have never observed the gradation by which art is acquired. .
. to conclude. . . that it is not only inaccessible to themselves.
<0 Reader behold the Philosophers Grave.
He was born quite a Fool: but he died quite a Knave>
[P 149] It would be no wonder if a student. . . should. . . consider it as hopeless, to set about
acquiring by the imitation of any human master, what he is taught to suppose is matter of
inspiration from heaven.
the Ox striving to trot like the Horse just as Ridiculous it is see One Man Striving
to
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