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painting feel, when after viewing any natural scen- 

 ery deficient in that respect, they catch a glimpse 

 of water, however trifling : a pleasure which arises 

 not merely from its brilliancy, but also from that 

 revival and renewal of colour, by means of which, 

 the beauty and harmony of the whole is so greatly 

 augmented. 



These remarks may be said to belong more im- 

 mediately to the art of painting; but whatever tends 

 to add new pleasures to those which we already re- 

 ceive from the common objects and effects of na- 

 ture, cannot be foreign to the purpose of this 

 ■work. 



f . 97. 1. 9- AH that part of the feble which relates to the 

 form and position of the Cyclops' eye, is by many 

 supposed to have been invented since the time of 

 '• ■ Homer : it is certain that he is perfectly silent with 

 respect to them both. Some of his most diligent 

 interpreters have also thought, that he never intend- 

 ed to represent Polyphemus as having been originally 

 of a different confonnation from that of other men, 

 but merely as having lost an eye by some accident; 

 and at Catanea in Sicily, there is a sculpture in re- 

 lief, which does represent him according to this 

 idea. Notwithstanding these authorities I am 

 still inclined to think, that Homer did meaw to 

 represeutthe Cyclops in general as a one-eyed race 

 by nature, whatever may have been his notion of 

 the form and position of that one eye. There is 

 a passage in Strabo which clearly proves that he 

 was of that opinion : speaking of Homer's mixing 



