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in poetry itself, and in the vivid pictures of divine 

 inspiration, the sweetest note that strikes the car 

 comes from the landscape; the brightest picture 

 is the landscape itself. All that Taste has ever de- 

 manded for her gratification, genius has here found ; 

 and if God is the author of both nature and the 

 mind, here we should expect that among the crystals, 

 flowers and sensitive life, the emotional nature of man 

 would find one of its highest earthly gratifications. 

 In painting and sculpture the human mind is striv- 

 ing for the .same that appears in poetry ami in the 

 adorning of common language. It is the gratifica- 

 tion of the love of the beautiful. Poetry, painting, 

 and sculptu: moved on together ir all ages. 



They are the natural outgrowth of the hu.nan mind. 

 And the great masters have gained th'.ir preemi- 

 nence from their clear conceptions of nature, and 

 the emotional in man, and their skill in selecting 

 from one what should meet the wants >f the other. 

 The artist who can so combine the hi. its of nature 

 to make a perfect whole, need huve no fear of 

 being forgotten or neglected. 



As nature is the store-house from which writers 

 draw, and the pattern according to which they must 

 work, so must this also be true of the painter and 

 sculptor, who would trace upon the canvas and 

 chisel from marble, figures that shall glow forever 

 with the warm expression of life. 



But if no line of poetry had ever been written, no 

 canvas ever glowed with colors, and no sculptor had 

 ever found the statue within the block of marble, we 



