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b}' art in a place of large extent, in no 

 one part of which, where that art has been 

 busy, a painter would take out his sketch- 

 book ; when I see the sickening display of 

 that art, such as it is, and the total want 

 of effect — I am tempted to reverse the sense 

 of the famous line of Tasso, and to say of 

 such performances, 



L'artc die nulla fa, tutta si scopre. 



