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8 olemn repose, in unison with the sadness of the occasion : the living figures ap- 

 pear as motionless as the corpse that lies extended on the bier ; and it might be 

 a hnost imagined that they formed a group from the melancholy city of the 

 dead. Every thing tends to one point, and has an intention in harmony with 

 the design : the dim, uncheering light of the heavens, such as it is, concentrates 

 towards the headless remains of the hero ; though, so unwilling are the gleams 

 that steal from beneath the clouds, that it would rather seem as if Phosbus 

 shrank from the sight, and, as at Atreus' bloody banquet, refused to look upon 

 the scene. The architecture of the city gates, to which the procession is ap- 

 proaching, lends a gloomy beetling front to the solemn severity of the design ; 

 and the very trees seem to be waved by the bidding of the wind, so as to marshal 

 " the men at war" the way that they are going. 



These remarks rather apply to the general purpose of the whole ; but we 

 should be guilty of an omission, were we to forget to say, that, in the minor 

 points of the detail, there is displayed that feeling which gives evidence of the 

 angle object of the artist, without which no great work in any of the arts can 

 ever be produced. It is with the painter, as with the poet : to be great, he must 

 set out from one single, unit of thought, and the whole of the remainder, to be 

 genuine and in keeping, must be the sincere ramifications of that one single 

 unit ; so that the entire, however extended, may present no interruption of senti - 

 ment, but be instantly acknowledged as the honest offspring of " the head and 

 front" of the composition. It is because we have found this in " Saul" that we 

 have indulged so much in the laudatory strain ; and we have, perhaps, been the 

 warmer in our praise, owing to the scarcity of the opportunities afforded by our 

 living artists. 



We must not forget to congratulate Mr. Linnell on his successful endeavour in 

 transferring the picture to the copper : it is engraved as if he shared the artist's 

 feeling, that poetry rejoiceth in truth, and most religiously escheweth the mere- 

 tricious gewgaws of trickery and of Germanism. 



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