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would have conceived efteem for the obfcure vir- 

 tues which are neceffary to their happinefs, and 

 would have been flimulated to tread in the rough 

 paths of glory which their lowly patronefs trod be- 

 fore them, whom it is now impoffible for them to 

 diftinguifli in her Grecian robes, and furrounded 

 by Prelates. 



Our Artifts, in fome cafes, deviate fo completely 

 from the principal objeâ:, that they leave it out al- 

 together. There was exhibited fome years ago, 

 in one of the workQiops of the Louvre, a monu- 

 ment in honour of the Dauphin and Dauphinefs, 

 defigned for the cathedral of the city of Sens, 

 Every body flocked to fee it, and came away in 

 raptures of admiration. I went wiih the reft ; and 

 the firft thing I looked for was the refemblance ot 

 the Dauphin and Dauphinefs, to whofe memory 

 the monument had been ereâied. There was no 

 fuch thing there, n(à£ even in medallion?. You 

 faw Time with his fcythe, Hymen with urns, and all 

 the thread-bare ideas of allegory, which frequently 

 is, by the way, the genius of thofe who have none. 

 In order to complete the elucidation of the fub- 

 jeâ:, there were on the panels of a fpecies of altar, 

 placed in the midft of this group of fymbolical 

 figures, long infcriptions in Latin, abundantly fo- 

 reign to the memory of the great Prince who was 

 ?he objed of ihcm. There, faid I to myfelf, there 



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