He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own. d. Mrs. JAMESON-Memoirs and Essays. Washington Allston. Drawings ought always to be valuable, whether of plants, animals, or scenery, provided only they are accurate; and the more spirited and full of genius they are, the more accurate they are certain to be; for Nature being alive, a lifeless copy of her is necessarily an untrue copy. e. CHAS. KINGSLEY- Health and Education. The Study of Natural History. Dead he is not, but departed,-for the artist never dies. f. LONGFELLOW--Nuremburg. St. 13. He best can paint them who shall feel them If it is the love of that which your work represents-if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you—if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you-if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof. i. RUSKIN-The Two Paths. Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. j. RUSKIN-True and Beautiful. Painting. Introduction. The more the Artist charms, the more the thinker knows. Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 2. Timon.-Wrought he not well that painted Apem. He wrought better that made the painter; and yet he's but a filthy piece of work. Let the faint copier, on old Tiber's shore, Nor mean the task, each breathing bust explore, Line after line, with painful patience trace, This Roman grandeur, that Athenian grace. THOMAS TICKELL-To Sir Godfrey t. Kneller. I would I were a painter, for the sake น WHITTIER-Mountain Pictures. No. 2. Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Arabie the blest. Die of a rose in aromatic pain. 2. POPE-Essay on Man. Line 200. LONGFELLOW-The Sea-side and Fireside. Dedication. Line 16. Good-bye-my paper's out so nearly I've only room for-your's sincerely. MOORE-The Fudge Family in Paris. Letter VI. Ingenious Nature's zeal for friendship's laws A means for distant friends to meet could find, S. Lines which the hand with ink on paper draws, Betokening from afar the anxious mind. t. PALLADAS Jacob's Anth. Trans. by Dr. Wellesley. Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. น. POPE-Eloisa to Abelard. Line 51, I no more think I can have too many of your letters, than I could have too many writings to entitle me to the greatest estate in the world; which I think so valuable a friendship as yours is equal to. v. POPE-To Lady Montagu. Line after line my gushing eyes o'erflow, Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom, Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! a. POPE-Eloisa to Abelard. Line 35. Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, C. Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-baked vessel found; "Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet, thy moist clay is pliant to command; Unwrought and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel. DRYDEN--Third Satire of Persius. Line 35. v. w. A potter near his modest cot |