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terly set wrong as to all Judgment and Knowledge in the kind. For of this imitative Art we may justly say; That tho It borrows help indeed from Colours, and uses them, as means, to execute its Designs; It has nothing, however, more wide of its real Aim, or more remote from its Intention, than to make a shew of Colours, or from their mixture, to raise a[1] separate and flattering Pleasure to the Sense.
The End of the Third Volume.
- ↑ The Pleasure is plainly foreign and separate, as having no concern or Share in the proper Delight or Entertainment which naturally arises from the Subject, and Workmanship it-self. For the Subject, in respect of Pleasure, as well as Science, is absolutely compleated, when the Design is executed, and the propos'd Imitation once accomplish'd. And thus it always is the best, when the Colours are most subdu'd, and made subservient.
