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well as the colour of his skin ; I see that 

 his beard is not only grizzle, but rough 

 and stubbed, and, in my mind, very ugly; 

 I see that the hovel is rugged and uneven, 

 as well as brown and dingy ; and I cannot 

 get these things out of my mind by any 

 endeavours : in short, what I see and feel 

 to be ugly, I cannot think, or call beautiful, 

 whatever lovers of painting may do/' 



" It is by a love and study of pictures," 

 replied Mr. Howard, " that this beauty is 

 perceived ; because painting, by imitating 

 the visible qualities only, discriminates it 

 from the objects of the other senses with 

 which it may be combined, and which, if 

 productive of stronger impressions either 

 of pleasure or disgust, will overpower it ; 

 so that a mind not habituated to such dis- 

 criminations, or (as more commonly ex- 

 pressed) a person not possessed of a paint- 

 er's eye, does not discover it till it is sepa- 

 rated in the artist's imitation. Rembrandt, 

 Ostade, Teniers, and others of the Dutch 

 painters, have produced the most beauti- 

 ful pictures by the most exact imitations 



