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pecially that of the soldier, who perceives 

 the dead rising from their graves." 



" It is more easy," said Mr. Hamilton, 

 " to judge of Poussin (for there is but 

 one historical painter of that name) by 

 his characters and expressions, in which 

 he very uniformly excelled, than by his 

 colouring, in which no one was ever more 

 different from himself ; in the present in- 

 stance, it is possible that these harsh co- 

 lours, and this strong opposition of them, 

 may have designedly been introduced, 

 from an idea (I hardly think a just one) 

 that they suited the terror of the subject. 

 In that other picture of his— the Deluge— 

 I believe you will be of opinion, that the 

 Colouring and the subject are more happily 

 adapted to each other." 



*' I am indeed," answered Mr. Seymour; 

 " I feel very sensibly, that the sameness 

 and deadness of the general hue, perfectly 

 accords with my conceptions of such a, 

 scene : and, as he has shewn in the Bac- 

 chanalian, that he knew how to give the 

 most animated glow to his colours, when 



