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speaker ; and indeed were it otherwise, all 

 the interlocutors in all dialogues, must speak 

 and think alike. With regard to the epi- 

 thet in question, I dare say Mr. Knight has 

 heard many ladies, and many gentlemen ex- 

 claim, 0, what a lovely picture ! and if he 

 could have thought it necessary to ask what 

 they meant by it, they probably would have 

 interpreted it by beautiful. The expression 

 would not perhaps have been quite proper 

 in Mr. Hamilton's mouth, though he might 

 not feel much repugnance to it; in Mr. 

 Howard's, with regard to whose sentiments 

 and expressions I was bound to be extreme- 

 ly cautious, it would have been quite im- 

 proper; but Mr. Seymour was more at li- 

 berty, and any one who reads the part, will 

 see that he uses the word lovely, not as being 

 generally synonymous with beautiful, but as 

 expressing and explaining his particular 

 feeling; that is, his repugnance to call those 

 pictures beautiful, the subjects of which, 

 with the objects represented in them, were 

 the most directly opposite to every idea of 

 loveliness. 



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