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beauty, or magnificence. The painter, it 

 is true, has very skilfully distributed his 

 colours, and his lights and shadows, so 

 that all is highly natural ; and the har- 

 mony of the whole pleases my unpractised 

 eye, now I have been taught to reflect 

 upon it : but I must again repeat, that the 

 term beautiful, applied to a picture with- 

 out a single beautiful object in it, and with 

 some, like those before you, very ugly 

 and nasty, is used, if not in a licentious, 

 at least in a very vague sense : so I will go 

 back to the Claude, where I know and feel, 

 that the whole, and every part, is beau- 

 tiful." 



" Stay," said Mr. Hamilton, " do not 

 pass by this Magdalen of Guido for mere 

 landscape/' 



" I did not observe it," said Mr. Sey- 

 mour, u perhaps from its being hung higher 

 than the rest ; and I am much obliged to 

 you for stopping me. Good God ! what a 

 difference it makes, when, with the same 

 harmony and softness, there is such ex- 

 quisite beauty of form 1 not only in the 



