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who ftruggled with all his remaining ftrength to 

 get up, and expire in her arms. 



Details are by no means to be defpifed ; they 

 are frequently traits of charader. To return to 

 our Painters and Sculptors ; if they with-hold the 

 expreffion of motion to landfcapes, to wreftlers, 

 and to chariots in the courfe, they bellow it on the 

 portraits and the ftatues of our great Men and 

 Philofophers. They reprefent them as Angels 

 founding the alarm to judgment, with hair flying 

 about, with wild wandering eyes, the mufcles of 

 the face in a ftate of convulfion, and their gar- 

 ments fluttering in the wind. Thefe, they tell us, 

 are the exprefllons of genius. But perfons of ge- 

 nius, and great Men, are not bedlamites. I have 

 feen fome of their portraits, on antiques. The 

 medals of Firpl, of Plato, of Scipioy of Epaminon- 

 das, nay, of Alexander, reprefent them with a fe- 

 rene and tranquil air. It is the property of inani- 

 mate matter, of vegetables, and of mere animals, 

 to obey all the movements of Nature; but it is 

 that of a great Man, in my opinion, to have his 

 emotions under command, and it is only in fo far 

 as he exercifes this empire, that he merits the 

 name of Great. 



1 have made a fliort digreflion from my fubjed, 

 in order to fugged a few leflbns of conformity to 



Artifts, 



