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pencil are often left in the roughest manner! 

 and as nothing can be more adapted to 

 strongly marked picturesque objects and 

 effects, so nothing can be less suited to 

 express beauty, and to convey a general 

 impression of that character. What is the 

 style most truly productive of that general, 

 impression, will be much better learnt from 

 the words of Sir Joshua Reynolds, than 

 from any thing I could say ; though he had 

 not exactly the same point in view. Speak- 

 ing of Correggio, he says, " his colour and 

 his mode of finishing, approach nearer to 

 perfection than those of any other painter ; 

 the gliding motion of his outline, and the 

 sweetness with which it melts into the 

 ground, the clearness and transparency of 

 his colouring, which stops at that exact 

 medium in which the purity and perfec- 

 tion of taste lies, leave nothing to be 

 wished for/' 



If there be any style of painting, which* 

 in contra-distinction to the others, might 

 justly be called the beautiful style, that of 

 Correggio has certainly from this descrip- 



