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discernment, but who had never seen a 

 picture, to have been shewn when they 

 were first painted, the Aurora of Guido, 

 the Nymphs and Cupids of Albano, or 

 the Leda of Correggio, pictures in which 

 nothing but what is youthful and lovely 

 is exhibited, he must readily have acknow- 

 ledged the whole, and every part to be 

 beautiful ; because if he were to see such 

 objects in nature, he would call them so> 

 and view them with delight. The same 

 thing must have happened had he been 

 shewn a picture of Claude, where richly 

 ornamented temples and palaces, were ac- 

 companied by trees of elegant forms, and 

 luxuriant foliage, the whole set off by the 

 mild glow of a fine evening; for every 

 thing he saw there, he would wish to see 

 and to dwell upon in reality. But should 

 he have been shewn a set of pictures, in 

 which a number of the principal objects 

 were rough, rugged and broken, with va- 

 rious marks of age and decay, yet with- 

 out any thing of grandeur or dignity, he 

 must certainty have thought it stran°;e ? 



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