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same may be said of corn : its regular 

 growth is upright ; accident bends it in a 

 thousand directions. The brow of the lion 

 is always a marked feature of nature ; but 

 the effect of passions, which are the acci- 

 dents of the mind, makes it infinitely 

 more striking ; and Antoninus might very 

 possibly think of that famous line of Ho- 

 mer, which describes the lion drawing down 

 his brow in anger. The foam of the wild 

 boar is also a mark of passion, and conse- 

 quently has a stronger effect on the imagi- 

 nation. All that he says, too, of the plea- 

 sure we receive from looking at those ob- 

 jects in reality, which we have been used' 

 to admire in painting, and of that which 

 we receive from viewing the strongly mark- 

 ed lines of age, as well as the loveliness of 

 youth, shews that he examined objects 

 with a painter's eye, however stoically he 

 'might account for the pleasure they gave 

 him. 



" But let us suppose, that his master 

 Biognotus (or, any painter, of an enquiring; 

 mind, but not addicted, like Antoninus, to 



