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Article WISDOM AND FOLLY. A VISION. ← Page 2 of 4 →
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Wisdom And Folly. A Vision.
the most exquisite beauty and resemblance to nature . ' What I ' said 1 < are these the pictures Folly admires ? ' ' Quite the contrary , " said the Guide . 'It is not the pictures that delight Folly . Folly knows no more of pictures than he does ( and no one can know less . ) it is his employing pains and expence in procuring that for which he has not the smallest relish , and of which he even has no comprehension
. NOBOKN-FOOL can judge of pictures , but a Fool may pretend to understand them , and may persuade other Fools he does so . To establish Ins character as a Connoisseur , Borewell keeps the whispering man in his pay , employs him to purchase the best pictures tot-him ( the said Borewell to wit ) to write out the subjects and qualities of the Several pieces , and the names of the authors . Borewell cons over his lesson as exactly as the exhibitor of the tombs and
Heroes in your Westminster . Abbey does his . He can repeat to the visitors of his rooms , with as much ease— « beautiful painting!—delicate lines . !—charming colouring!—Guide ' s own pencil ! —Raphael ' s sublimity !—Reubens , Vandyke , Correggio , Titian—Flemish school !'—as the grey orators in cages can , ' Pretty , pretty Poll . '' and with equal intelligence . He is often out in strange pieces , i . e . not of his collectionand makes
own ; little mistakes , such as taking Hogarth ' s March of the Guards for Paul preaching- at Athens , and the like . ° As Bore ' s pictures were produced , I saw the spy-glasses brought out : several persons shutting the left eye , put the glass to the right ; and , lengthening their features , appeared to be examining the paintuttered several
ings . They hums and ha ' s , and then looked in one another ' s faces , with an expression seemingly intended to convey an idea , that they were subjeas of Wisdom . Queen Folly , however , pardoned the disloyalty , knowing , that whatever their faces were , THEIH HEADS were her own . A spy-glass , ' said my Guide , < with a grave countenance , and slow pronunciation , uttering the names of Guido , Titian , Raphael , is sufficient to dub a Fool a Cnv .. nhsrvr >
Little Borewell , I found , was also a politician , ' and " very faithfully retailed the narratives and reasonings he had last heard , whether true or false , right or wrong , ( of which he is no judge )'" as his own observations and arguments . He has Conversation on a Sunday , at which the cognoscenti meet ; and repeat precious lessons of morality from Rochefaucault's Maxims and Chesterfield ' s Letters . These he bottles
, dregs and all , in his memory , ancl generously decants for the entertainment of his next visitants . He himself , as you hear , is very slow in his elocution , as if he were parsimonious of so valuable a commodity as nonsense . This would indeed be a very unnecessary ceconomy to him , as he is blessed with an inexhaustible fund . Some officious persons having often heard him talk of his intimacy with
my Lord Gruff , one of the favourite subjects of Queen Wisdom ( though her Majesty did not altogether approve of his ~ manners ) informed the Stultan Sovereign that Brainless thought of deserting to the enemy . Queen Folly , alarmed at the idea of being abandoned by so valuable
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Wisdom And Folly. A Vision.
the most exquisite beauty and resemblance to nature . ' What I ' said 1 < are these the pictures Folly admires ? ' ' Quite the contrary , " said the Guide . 'It is not the pictures that delight Folly . Folly knows no more of pictures than he does ( and no one can know less . ) it is his employing pains and expence in procuring that for which he has not the smallest relish , and of which he even has no comprehension
. NOBOKN-FOOL can judge of pictures , but a Fool may pretend to understand them , and may persuade other Fools he does so . To establish Ins character as a Connoisseur , Borewell keeps the whispering man in his pay , employs him to purchase the best pictures tot-him ( the said Borewell to wit ) to write out the subjects and qualities of the Several pieces , and the names of the authors . Borewell cons over his lesson as exactly as the exhibitor of the tombs and
Heroes in your Westminster . Abbey does his . He can repeat to the visitors of his rooms , with as much ease— « beautiful painting!—delicate lines . !—charming colouring!—Guide ' s own pencil ! —Raphael ' s sublimity !—Reubens , Vandyke , Correggio , Titian—Flemish school !'—as the grey orators in cages can , ' Pretty , pretty Poll . '' and with equal intelligence . He is often out in strange pieces , i . e . not of his collectionand makes
own ; little mistakes , such as taking Hogarth ' s March of the Guards for Paul preaching- at Athens , and the like . ° As Bore ' s pictures were produced , I saw the spy-glasses brought out : several persons shutting the left eye , put the glass to the right ; and , lengthening their features , appeared to be examining the paintuttered several
ings . They hums and ha ' s , and then looked in one another ' s faces , with an expression seemingly intended to convey an idea , that they were subjeas of Wisdom . Queen Folly , however , pardoned the disloyalty , knowing , that whatever their faces were , THEIH HEADS were her own . A spy-glass , ' said my Guide , < with a grave countenance , and slow pronunciation , uttering the names of Guido , Titian , Raphael , is sufficient to dub a Fool a Cnv .. nhsrvr >
Little Borewell , I found , was also a politician , ' and " very faithfully retailed the narratives and reasonings he had last heard , whether true or false , right or wrong , ( of which he is no judge )'" as his own observations and arguments . He has Conversation on a Sunday , at which the cognoscenti meet ; and repeat precious lessons of morality from Rochefaucault's Maxims and Chesterfield ' s Letters . These he bottles
, dregs and all , in his memory , ancl generously decants for the entertainment of his next visitants . He himself , as you hear , is very slow in his elocution , as if he were parsimonious of so valuable a commodity as nonsense . This would indeed be a very unnecessary ceconomy to him , as he is blessed with an inexhaustible fund . Some officious persons having often heard him talk of his intimacy with
my Lord Gruff , one of the favourite subjects of Queen Wisdom ( though her Majesty did not altogether approve of his ~ manners ) informed the Stultan Sovereign that Brainless thought of deserting to the enemy . Queen Folly , alarmed at the idea of being abandoned by so valuable