LOVE'S MEINIE. 



" 11 etoit tout convert d'oisiaulx." 



Romance of the Rose. 



LECTURE I.* 



THE ROBIN. 



I. Among the more splendid pictures in the 

 Exhibition of the Old Masters, this year, you 

 cannot but remember the Vandyke portraits of 

 the two sons of the Duke of Lennox. I think 

 you cannot but remember it, because it would 

 be difficult to find, even among the works of 

 Vandyke, a more striking representation of 

 the youth of our English noblesse ; nor one 

 in which the painter had more exerted himself, 

 or with better success, in rendering the de- 

 corous pride and natural grace of honourable 

 aristocracy. 



Vandyke is, however, inferior to Titian and 



* Delivered at Oxford, March 15th, 1S73. 



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