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p. 37. | An Epitaph : Come knock j'our heads against this stone. [MS. Book lxxxvi.] |
Another: I was buried near this dyke. [MS. Book lxxxvii.] | |
Another: Here lies John Trot, the Friend of all mankind. [MS.
Book lxxxviii.] | |
p. 38. | My title as a Genius thus is prov'd. [MS. Book lxxxix.] |
I, Rubens, am a Statesman and a Saint. [MS. Book xc] | |
To English Connoisseurs : You must agree that Rubens was a fool. [MS, Bookxci.] | |
Note. — There is just the same science in Lebrun or Rubens or even Vanloo that there is in Raphael or Michael Angelo, but not the same genius. Science is soon got; the other never can be acquired but must be born. | |
Swelled limbs with no outline that you can descry. [MS. Book xcii.] | |
A Pretty Epigram for the encouragement of those Who have paid
great sums in the Venetian and Flemish ooze. [MS. Book xciii.] These are the Idiots' chiefest arts. [MS. Book xciv.] | |
p. 39. | Raphael Sublime Majestic Graceful Wise. [MS. Book xcv.] |
Learn the laborious stumble of a Fool. [MS. Book xcvi.] | |
If I e'er Grow to Man's Estate, [MS. Book xcvii.] | |
The cripple every step drudges & labours. [MS. Book xcviii.] | |
p. 40. | Sketch. — For Gates of Paradise. |
On the great encouragement given by English Nobility. [MS.
Book xcix.] | |
Give Pensions to the Learned Pig. [MS. Book c] | |
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought. [MS.
Book ci.] | |
p. 41. | On H the Pickthank : I write the rascal thanks, till he and I [MS. Book cii.] |
Cromek speaks: I always take my judgement from a Fool. [MS.
Book ciii.] | |
When you look at a picture you always can see. [MS. Book civ.] | |
English Encouragement of Art, Cromek's opinions put into rhyme, [MS. Book cv.] | |
p. 42. | You say their Pictures well painted be. [MS, Book cvi.] |
Sketch. | |
The Washerwoman's Song: I wash'd them out and wash'd them in.
[MS. Book cvii.] | |
p. 43. | When I see a Rubens Rembrandt Correggio. [MS. Book cviii.] |
Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet. [MS. Book cix.] | |
p. 44. | Sketch (pencil). — For Marriage of Heaven and Hell — 'Nebuchadnezzar.' |
Note. — Let a Man who has made a drawing gt) on & on & he will produce a Picture or Painting, but if he chooses to leave it before he has spoil'd it he will do a Better Thing, | |
p. 45. | Sketch. — For Gates of Paradise — I have said to corruption etc. |
p. 46. | Sketch.— Murder. [See WMR. (k).] |
Prose. — They say there is no straight line in nature . . . Machination, [Advt.] | |
Prose. — Delicate Hands & Heads will never appear While Titian &c, as in the Book of Moonlight, p. 5. |