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for tafte, unlefs the general efFe6l of the 

 pidture be good. In thefe pictures, you, 

 as an improver, difplay your fkill in unit- 

 ing what is prefent, and what is future, 

 into compofitions, and in arranging the 

 forms and tints as they will belt accord : 

 they give the firft impreflion of your ta- 

 lents, and they are in a great degree to be 

 your guides in the execution. It is true, 

 you are not a Claude, a Gafpar, a Pouffin, 

 or a Titian, but you do as much as your 

 powers will enable you to do, which I by no 

 means intend to undervalue, when I place 

 them at an immenfe diftance from fuch 

 mailers; as likewife from others I could 

 name, who, by a fuccefsful ftudy of their 

 works, have transfufed the fpirit of them 

 into their own. I am perfuaded you have 

 not the vanity to compare your forms and 

 difpofitions of objects (and I fpeak not of 

 effects) to theirs; and that you muft be 



fenfible, 



