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from that which I admired in the Magda* 

 Jen. Without being any judge of the 

 composition of landscape* I admire very 

 much the richness of those trees, with 

 vine-leaves and clusters of grapes mixed 

 with their foliage, and hanging from them 

 in festoons. Such a mixture, besides its 

 real beauty, is particularly striking to an 

 English eye, as it marks a warmer climate* 

 and a more luxuriant vegetation than our 

 own, and is therefore perfectly in unison 

 with the scene* where the action may be 

 supposed to have passed : the general 

 glow of tihe colouring no less happily ac- 

 cords with the subject: indeed, it is in 

 every respect, a most enchanting picture. 



" But I see that the name of Poussin is 

 also on that picture of the crucifixion. I 

 suppose it must be some other painter of 

 the same name, for I never saw any thing 

 more harsh and discordant than the colours 

 appear to my eye, or more completely 

 different from those of the Bacchanalian t 

 and yet/' continued he* 66 now I am nearer 

 to it, the expressions are very striking ; es- 



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