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and realises to the mind the pictures formed thereon by
the poet or historian.
All rules are formed from practice; and while some
are content to bound their knowledge by received rules,
others, with more praiseworthy courage, think for them-
selves, and form theories upon their own practice, or
that of others.
A pupil should never rest satisfied with copying from
the works of others, however beautiful they may be, any
more than a person, who has been taught to read or write
should be content in always using the words or sentences
that have formed the examples on which he has been
instructed.
It is to be supposed that the best models in both cases
have been placed before him, in order to the formation of
his taste; and, as in language we can only use words that
are to be found in its Dictionary, so in drawing we can
only copy some object that has had a previous existence;
it is the arranging, comparing and combining, in both
cases, upon which we found our claims to originality, and
by which we form our estimate of past ages, and by which
too we ourselves shall be judged in ages to come.
END.
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and realises to the mind the pictures formed thereon by
the poet or historian.
All rules are formed from practice; and while some
are content to bound their knowledge by received rules,
others, with more praiseworthy courage, think for them-
selves, and form theories upon their own practice, or
that of others.
A pupil should never rest satisfied with copying from
the works of others, however beautiful they may be, any
more than a person, who has been taught to read or write
should be content in always using the words or sentences
that have formed the examples on which he has been
instructed.
It is to be supposed that the best models in both cases
have been placed before him, in order to the formation of
his taste; and, as in language we can only use words that
are to be found in its Dictionary, so in drawing we can
only copy some object that has had a previous existence;
it is the arranging, comparing and combining, in both
cases, upon which we found our claims to originality, and
by which we form our estimate of past ages, and by which
too we ourselves shall be judged in ages to come.
END.