A Dialogue On the Distinct Characters of the Picturesque And the Beautiful in
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" You certainly are in the right, How- ard, " continued Mr. Seymour, " and have accounted for this perfectly well: I can- not, indeed, eafily bring myfelf to call fuch a picture beautiful; but I do perceive, and with pleafure, the blended variety of mellow and harmonious tints you fpoke of, both on the ox itfelf, on the gloomy window behind, and on the woman leaning over the wicket. Now, I recollect: that in coming through the village, we pafled by a butcher's (hop, where a real ox was hung up ...much in the fume manner; but neither of C of you flopped to examine it : on the con- trary, we all got a little out of the way. Ani- mal difguft, therefore, prevailed in the one cafe, and not in the other; and thus far, I think, even you, Hamilton, muft allow, that Howard's diftinclion is juft; though you do not agree with him on the point altogether. " " Before I anfwer you, J> faid Mr. Hamil- ton, ' I beg you will look at this head, and tell me what you think of it. " " What I think of it!" faid he, "why, I think it a much more exact, and extraordina- ry imitation of nature, than any thing I have feen; every line of the countenance, every hair is exprefled ; it is natural to a degree, that I had no idea the art of painting could ar- rive at; and I fhall not eafily forget the name of Denner, which the artift is well juftified in having written on it.
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