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not necessary to have a painter's eye in 

 order to admire this picture. I fear how- 

 ever, I shall look at nothing else with 

 pleasure, and I hardly know how to quit 

 it. 



" You may come to it again by and by," 

 said Mr. Howard, " but do look at this 

 picture of Teniers ; and you will own that 

 he has produced (and so have many of the 

 Dutch school,) the most beautiful pictures, 

 by the most exact imitation of the most 

 ugly and disgusting objects in nature : and 

 yet, as I observed before, it is physically 

 impossible that an exact imitation should 

 exhibit qualities not existing in its ori- 

 ginal ." 



" I do allow/' said Mr. Seymour, after 

 looking at it for some time, " that this is 

 an admirable imitation ; and I own like- 

 wise, that if what the woman is washing 

 and cleaning, were real tripes, guts, and 

 garbage, the sense of smelling, and animal 

 disgust, would prevent any pleasure I 

 might have (if pleasure there could be) in 

 such a sight. This certainly is merely the 



