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mour, who says the most beautiful, that is 

 t^e most lovely pictures." 



One principal advantage of writing in 

 dialogue, and of which my friend seems in- 

 clined to deprive me, is that of being able 

 to give to some one of the speakers — whe- 

 ther for the sake of variety and contrast, or 

 in order to support indirectly an opinion 

 you wish to prevail — expressions and senti- 

 ments which could not come in a direct 

 manner from any of the others. It is Mr. 

 Hamilton s, or, if you please, my interest, to 

 have it thought th,at the term beautiful is 

 improperly applied to a picture in which 

 th^ objects are ugly or disgusting, whatever 

 iflay be its merit as a work of a.rt : this was 

 to be effected in part through Mr, Seymour; 

 who, though he ought not to say $ny tiling 

 that betrayed folly, may be al^wed, w}»en 

 speaking of pictures, to discover sent^me^, 

 and to; u^e expressions, yhic\\ wou^not pejr- 

 haps occur to a though-bred connoisseur. 

 In such cases the author is no further an- 

 swerable for the expressions or the senti- 

 ments, than that they should accord with 

 the character which he has assigned to the 



