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" Why, Seymour," said Mr. Howard, 

 " you talk with more enthusiasm on the 

 subject, than either Hamilton or myself!" 



" Where there is so much poetry in pic- 

 tures/' answered he, it is not necessary 

 to have a painters eye to enjoy them ; al- 

 though I am well persuaded, that a know- 

 ledge of the art would greatly enhance the 

 pleasure." 



" As you are so much delighted with the 

 poetry of the art," said Mr. Hamilton, 

 " you must look at these pictures by Ni- 

 cholas Poussin, a French painter, and one 

 of the brightest ornaments, not only of his 

 own school, but of the art itself. He is 

 one of the most learned and classical of 

 the painters, and equally excellent in figures 

 and in landscape; as I think you will see, 

 when you examine this Bacchanalian." 



" I see at the first glance/' replied Mr, 

 Seymour, " a great deal of beauty, grace, 

 and expression, in the figures ; and, as you 

 observed, there is a certain antique and 

 classical character in them, that gives to 

 their grace and beauty a different cast ? 



