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II HOGARTH.
sigh of sympathetic sorrow, and left the
bedchamber in tears. He was immedi-
ately surrounded by a crowd of those kind-
hearted nobles, who delight in soothing the
sorrows of a sovereign; and one of them
entreating him not to indulge his grief,
added, as a consolatory reflection, " Con-
" sider, sire, this man was but a painter \"
" I do," replied the monarch; " and I at
" the same time consider, that though, as
" a king, I could make a thousand such as
" you,—the Deity alone can make such a
" painter as Leonardo, da Vinci"
Shall I be permitted to adopt this re-
mark, and without any diminution of the
Italian's well-earned fame, assert that the
eulogy is equally appropriate to the Eng-
lishman whose name is at the head of this
chapter; for he was not the follower, but
the leader of a class, and became a painter
from divine impulse, rather than human..
instruction.
The biographers who have written of
artists, especially if the hero of their his-
sigh of sympathetic sorrow, and left the
bedchamber in tears. He was immedi-
ately surrounded by a crowd of those kind-
hearted nobles, who delight in soothing the
sorrows of a sovereign; and one of them
entreating him not to indulge his grief,
added, as a consolatory reflection, " Con-
" sider, sire, this man was but a painter \"
" I do," replied the monarch; " and I at
" the same time consider, that though, as
" a king, I could make a thousand such as
" you,—the Deity alone can make such a
" painter as Leonardo, da Vinci"
Shall I be permitted to adopt this re-
mark, and without any diminution of the
Italian's well-earned fame, assert that the
eulogy is equally appropriate to the Eng-
lishman whose name is at the head of this
chapter; for he was not the follower, but
the leader of a class, and became a painter
from divine impulse, rather than human..
instruction.
The biographers who have written of
artists, especially if the hero of their his-