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of the eye and ear is fubftituted, which operates without any 

 confcious effort of the mind. R. 



NOTE XLIX. VERSE 620. 

 Give to the dilates of the learn d refpecl. 



There are few fpeftators of a Painter's work, learned or 

 unlearned, who, if they can be induced to fpeak their real 

 fenfations, would not be profitable to the Artift. The only 

 opinions of which no ufe can be made, are thofe of half- 

 learned connoiffeurs, who have quitted Nature and have not 

 acquired Art. That fame fagacity which makes a man excel 

 in his profefllon muft affiil him in the proper ufe to be made 

 of the judgment of the learned, and the opinions of the vulgar. 

 Of many things the vulgar are as competent judges as the 

 moft learned connoiffeur ; of the portrait, for in fiance, of an 

 animal ; or, perhaps, of the truth of the reprefentations of 

 fome vulgar paflions. 



It muft be expected that the untaught vulgar will carry 

 with them the fame want of right tafte in the judgment they 

 make of the effect or charader in a picture as they do in 

 life, and prefer a ftrutting figure and gaudy colours to the 

 grandeur of fimplicity; but if this fame vulgar, or even an, 

 infant, miftook for dirt what was intended to be a made, it 

 may be apprehended the fhadow was not the true colour of 

 nature, with almoft as much certainty as if the obfervatioa 

 had been made by the moft able connoiffeur. R % 



NOTE L. VERSE 703. 

 Know that ere perfett tafte matures the mind, 

 Or perfeft pratfice to that tafte be joind. 

 However admirable his tafte may be, he is but half a Painter 

 who can only conceive his fubjecl, and is without knowledge 



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