~“ 
_ few mide. 
1802}, 
g nally to exift any ocular debility orde- 
tect; that highly excited, or long protract- 
ed, emotion fhould act fo violently as to’ 
impair the ftru€ure, and altogether to de- 
ftroy the capacity, of that organ, 
The reporter has recently perufed a 
letter from a poor French emigrant, in 
which he gives an account of his cafe, 
and complains of fo great a degree 
of opthalmic weaknefs, ** that he was. 
unable to fthed even one tear. for all 
that-he had left behind him.” This, no 
doubt, arofe from the many tears he had 
already fhed. Still he retained his regrets, 
but he was no longer able to give a fimilar 
demonttration of them. The seart is not 
fo (oon exhaufted as the eye. 
Milton and Homer, the two mof di- 
Retrofpedt of the Fine Arts. 
O47? 
vine geniufes, if we except Shake efpeares 
that ever *< lighted upon this orb,” may, 
it 3s not improbable, have owed the de- 
privation of their phyfical, in a great mea~ 
{ure, to the extraordinary ftrength and vi- 
vacity of their intelectual vifion*. J. R. 
Dec. 25. 
_*® The lines of Gray alluding to the latter 
of thefe bards, although highiy poetical, 
ought not, perhaps, to be confidered as incon- 
fiftent with the principles of medical philo~ 
fophy. 
The azure throne, the fapphire blaze, 
Where angels tremble as they gaze, 
He faw 3; and dagzted, with exceilive hight, 
Clos’d his eyes in enalets night. : 
MONTHLY. RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
( Communications aud the Loan of al! news Prints are requafted. } 
OYDELL’s magnificent edition of 
Shakefpeare is now nearly com- 
pleted ; every number, except the lait, is 
dtnceed and the laft will be ready in a 
This great work, which 
may unqueftionably be confidered as a na- 
tional honour, has, in’ the fum that has 
been expended on it, taken the lead of any 
book that ever was publifhed inany country. 
Indeed a fourth part of the expence would 
have ftartled the merchant of any other 
nation except England. It. has, on the 
whole, been conducted ina manner highly 
honourable to the proprietors, and, not- 
withftanding any imitations that 
follow, muft always preferve its original 
{uperiority. 
The Right Hon. Thomas Wallace, M. P. Theo- 
philus Clark, pinxt. Charles Turner, feulpt. 
Publifbed for Cribb. Holborn. 
This is a good portrait, well engraved. 
Samuel Whitbread, Efg. M.P. Hoppner, pinxet. 
S. W. Reynolds, feulpts. Publifoed Oober 10, 
180%, by Reynolds, 47, Poland-ftreet. 
That a portrait painted by Hoppner, 
‘and engraved by Reynolds, fhould be fu- 
“perior to the common clafs, we may fairly 
- 
-are realized. 
expect, and in this point our expectations, 
In painting and engraving 
it is in a fuperior ftyte. 
The Right Hon. George Fobu Spacers Lard: 
Spencer, Ge. iz. 
Dunkarton, feulpe. 
George ess, Hanover -{guares Price 11, 04 
.' 3. Copley, pinxt. 
may-. 
Publifeed by F. 8. Copleys - 
Zhe Right Hon. Henry Addington, Speaker of tie 
Houje of Commons. Tbe Jame Poti Ene 
graver, Publifoer, and Price. 
This pair of prints are painted in Mr. 
Copley’s ufual ftyle, and derive fome con 
fequence from the offices that have been,. 
and are, held by the originals, to whom 
they in air and manner have a ftriking re~ 
femblance. 
Sir R. Abercrombie. Hoppner, pinxt. F. Bar~ 
tolowzi, fculpt.. Publifhed -by Sfeffries, Clap- 
bam-read, Fan. 1, 1802, | 
It is fomewhat to the credit of our 
country that the portraits of eminent and 
diftinguifhed characters are morally cer- 
tain of being received with popular eager- 
nefs, and, if tolerably executed, to meet 
with a rapid fale. Prints of many of our 
eminent Generals and Admirals have 
been multiplied two and three times over, 
and with fuccefs. 
Sappho. Painted by R. Weftall, R.'A.- En- 
graved by E. Scriven, Hiftorical Engraver to 
Her Royal Hizhne|s the Princefs of Wale $5 £0, 
eobom tps ‘Print is, with Perwiffion, - ded.- 
cated. Publifoed Fan. 1, 18225 by. Clay and 
Scriven, No. 18, Ludgate-bill, 
St. Cecilia. ingraved by H. R: Cook, late Pupil 
of R: Thew, from a Pifture painzed ‘by 
Wefiall, dedicated to the Princefs of Wales, 
and publ ifhed for Clay and Scriven. Mone 
12s. ¢ach. Proof Impreffions 213. each. In 
+ Colours 2/. 125. the Puir. 
The two very pleating pictures from 
which thele prints were engraved, were 
~ exlte 
