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PREFACE. ix
pen of a professed artist, perhaps of a
Reynolds. The subject is therefore touch-
ed incidentally only; but as it is extensive
and amusing, and affords scope to the dis-
play of skill, taste and erudition united, it
will, it is to be hoped, ere long attract the
attention of some writer capable of doing
it justice.
As to the Style—in the first place some,
perhaps many expressions, and occasionally
whole sentences, may have been inadver-
tently repeated; a fault great without
doubt, but pardonable because almost
unavoidable in descriptive composition.
JJho, indeed, can paint like Nature, or who
vary his coloring with all the tints of
Italian scenery, lighted by an Italian sky ?
If Lucretius has repeated at length two of
the most beautiful passages in his poem*,
* Lib. i. v. 925.—Lib. iv. v.
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pen of a professed artist, perhaps of a
Reynolds. The subject is therefore touch-
ed incidentally only; but as it is extensive
and amusing, and affords scope to the dis-
play of skill, taste and erudition united, it
will, it is to be hoped, ere long attract the
attention of some writer capable of doing
it justice.
As to the Style—in the first place some,
perhaps many expressions, and occasionally
whole sentences, may have been inadver-
tently repeated; a fault great without
doubt, but pardonable because almost
unavoidable in descriptive composition.
JJho, indeed, can paint like Nature, or who
vary his coloring with all the tints of
Italian scenery, lighted by an Italian sky ?
If Lucretius has repeated at length two of
the most beautiful passages in his poem*,
* Lib. i. v. 925.—Lib. iv. v.
2