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without obferving, that it feems to he 

 meant as a fort of corrective both of the 

 praifes you have given and received. With 

 regard to myfelf, I can freely fay that I 

 fpoke of your talents as I thought of them, 

 and I praifed them, becaufe it is always 

 pleafant to give praife where it is due. 



I did take the liberty of recommending 

 to you the ftudy of what the higher artifts 

 have done, both in their pictures and their 

 drawings; for I will frankly own, that 

 from all the converlations which have 

 palled between us, I had (perhaps rafhly) 

 conceived, that you were not very conver- 

 fant in them: I cannot recollect, amidft 

 all the romantic fcenes we viewed toge^ 

 ther, your having made any of thofe allu- 

 fions to the works of various mailers, 

 which might naturally have occurred to a 

 perfon who had fludied, or even oblerved 

 them with common attention. I did there- 

 fore 



