More. he therefore takes a Falshood for granted to set out with>!

[P 203] [Whatever of taste we can] fairly bring under the dominion of reason, must be

considered as equally exempt from change.

The arts would lie open for ever to caprice. . . if those who. . . judge had no settled principles. . .

not rise in a Morning>

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[P 204] My notion of nature comprehends. . . also the. . . human mind and imagination.

Mortal & Perishing Nature. Such is the End of Epicurean or Newtonian Philosophy it

is Atheism>

[P 208] [Poussin's Perseus and Medusa's head] . . . I remember turning from it with disgust, . . .

A picture should please at first sight, . . .

Please! Whom? Some Men Cannot See a Picture except in a Dark Corner

[P 209] No one can deny, that violent passions will naturally emit harsh and disagreeable tones: .

Violent Passions Emit the Real Good & Perfect Tones

[P 214] . . . Rubens. . . thinking it necessary to make his work so very ornamental, . . .

not to be Ornamental>

[P 215] Nobody will dispute but some of the best of the Roman or Bolognian schools would

have produced a more learned and more noble work [than that of Rubens].

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