English Essays Materials Models for Composition From the Great Essayists
English Essays Materials Models for Composition From the Great Essayists
J H John Henry Fowler
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He that writes an apology for a single action, to confute an accusation, to recommend himself to favour, is indeed always to be suspected . Of favouring his own cause ; but he that sits down calmly and voluntarily to review his life for the admonition of posterity, or to amuse himself, and leaves this account unpublished, may be commonly pre- sumed to tell truth, since falsehood cannot appease his 20 own mind, and fame will not be heard beneath the tomb. SAMUEL JOHNSON. VIII. PAINTING AND THE I...MITATION OF NATURE. SIR, Your acceptance of a former letter on Painting gives me encouragement to offer a few more sketches on the same subject. Amongst the Painters, and the writers on Painting, there is oiie maxim universally admitted and continually incul- cated. Imitate Nature is the invariable rule ; but I know 32 ENGLISH ESSAYS. none whp have explained in what manner this rule is to be understood ; the consequence of which is that every one takes it in the most obvious sense, that objects are repre- sented naturally when they have such relief that they seem real.
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