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si ing. The other presupposes nicety and 

 w research, which are only the business of 

 4< the curious and attentive, and therefore 

 <c does not speak to the general sense of 

 " the whole species ; in which common, 

 " and, as I may so call it, mother tongue, 

 f< every thing grand and comprehensive 

 ** must be uttered." 



" If you will apply this masterly obser- 

 vation to the two heads before us, you will 

 see the reason why Rembrandt holds a 

 much higher place in the scale of painters, 

 than Denner." 



Nothing can be more striking and con* 

 vincing, than the passage you have just 

 quoted," said Mr. Seymour; " and though, 

 in spite of reason and authority, I still 

 cannot help feeling a preference for this 

 highly finished head, yet I am persuaded 

 that you and Sir Joshua are right. Indeed, 

 the same sort of reflection has frequently 

 occurred to me, in respect to another kind 

 of painting with which I am much more 

 conversant, the ) pictura loquens, as poetry 

 has been called. The descriptions, for 

 instance, in Thomson's Seasons, are ad- 



