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The master gone, the servants what restrains? 

 Or dwells humanity where riot reigns? 

 Jove fixed it certain that whatever day- 

 Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.' 



This said, the honest herdsman strode before : 

 The musing monarch pauses at the door : 

 The dog, whom Fate had granted to behold 

 His lord, when twenty tedious years had roll'd, 

 Takes a last fook, and having seen him, dies ; 

 So closed for ever faithful Argus' eyes ! " 



A second picture by the same accomplished artist is called All 

 that was left of the Homeward Bound (No. 986). It has every 

 perfection as far as painting is concerned, but is too painful to gaze 

 on without shuddering : a floating mast is " all that was left of the 

 homeward bound," but lashed to that mast is a young woman ; and 

 a white dog is lying across her body : the dog is evidently alive, 

 but in the last stage of suffering and emaciation ; the spirit of the 

 woman also, apparently, is hovering in the balance between life and 

 death; the lamp of life is glimmering in the socket: whether it be 

 desirable to introduce such scenes among the portraits of the sleek, 

 succulent physiognomies of the well-to-do, is a matter to be debated: 

 happily our English painters, well-fed themselves, are unequal to 

 the task, and therefore will never make the attempt; so we may 

 feel secure from repetitions of the harrowing scene. A sail appearing 

 on the horizon is the only hopeful spot in the dismal prospect j 

 on this the eye dwells as a possible, but most improbable, chance 

 of succour : how can human eye discern an object floating at so 

 great a distance on the surface of the illimitable waters ! 



Victor and Vanquished (No. 1057), by Mr. Bradley, has merits 

 and demerits of no common kind : the freedom with which the 

 Chillingham cattle are drawn, and the judgment with which they 

 are grouped, deserves high praise : the attitude of the victor bull, 

 caressed by one of the cows, is truthful and picturesque; so are the 

 cow and calf on the right, who appear to be contemplating and pity- 

 ing the dying bull on the left; but that bull himself is a repulsive 

 object; supposing it true, such truth should never be put on canvas, 

 even to gratify our insatiate appetite for sensation, and if indicated, 

 as murders are often indicated on the stage, the pitiful object should 

 not be exposed to our gaze; with this exception, all the other 

 figures are pleasing, and the altitudes bold but not exaggerated. 



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