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impression is given that the whole has been made up of the 

 remnants of several different kinds of objects fastened together, 

 without any claim to companionship. It is not however to be 

 understood, that nothing should be composed of two different 

 substances; this would condemn mirrors with frames, and 

 wooden chairs or couches covered with stuffs, and many other 

 objects where two or more materials are justifiable, and often 

 necessary. It is the composition of a design, not the setting 

 made of a different substance, that is to be condemned ; and 

 there will necessarily be some few exceptions even to this, as 

 to every other rule. Nor is it inadmissible to represent a 

 man, or a woman, supporting a candlestick, or other object, 

 provided it be really held by the hand, not growing from the 

 head, of the figure ; and every one will agree in admiring that 

 most graceful one by M. Angelo at the tomb of San Domenico, 

 in Bologna. 



[Even in copying from good designs, and in the selection of 

 others of uncertain merit, the feelings and proportions of the 

 former, and the excellence or the defects of the latter, are not 

 always understood ; and we often see blunders such as these, 

 where the basin is altered into a size too small for the ewer 



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Fig. 10. Fiy. 11. 



{fig. 9) ; and the spout of the classical prochoiis is immo- 

 derately thrust up (fig. 10), while another is spoilt by the lip 

 being abruptly cut off (fig. 11). 



32. Arts of design have a totally different office, and are 

 guided by very different principles from arts of imitation. 

 The former must be inventive, and independent of any direct 



