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Wisdom And Folly.
plexity ; next , in dreadful perturbation , gazing with eager but frig htened earnestness at some object which I could not see ; addressing hideous hugs sitting round a cauldron , and looking ^ at a pale image , pointing to his wounds , with a terror evidently arising from £ riiilt : a woman walking in her sleep , aud rubbing bloody spots on her hands . A third series consisted of a young man surveying a stronger pale
figure in armour , with a terror unmixt with guilt ; a lovely young lady out of her senses—the young man gazing at a grave . The same young mnn in a large company , of which one man was on an elevated seat , looking at persons who seemed to . be players—the man on the high seat starting up with the-strongest marks of terror and guilt .
In another series , a very old nun , with a countenance expressing grief , —successively grief , rage , and indignation : two women , that resembled himself in features , thrusting him out of a door : again , the same old man , with another old man , who was blind , and led by a person in a fantastic dress , but with a noble mien , near a white cliff : againwith a delightful countenance embracing a woman of
, great sweetness of aspect ; and , lastly , holding her dead in his arms , and exh . ibi-. ing the most frantic grief " . A series , representing two lovers in various situations , but at last both dead on . biers , had much of soft and tender melanchoty , though
without marking the phrenzy of passion expressed in the former . These were a few , of a wonderful variety of pathetic pictures on the right side of the chairman , which no person of common imagination could contemplate without believing to be real ; of common sensibility , without experiencing the same passions which the suffering characters in the painting exhibited . I saw many , apparently servants of the paintersemployed in placing
, the pifturesiii what appeared to them the best light . Numbers of those servants were bunglers ; but one David , who , I understood , was the confidential secretary of the chairman , shewed the greatest skill . He also exercised himself upon the works of other painters—A lady , also a great confident of the chairman's chief right hand painters , did not fall short of David .
My Guide , seeing me in the deepest distress from the exhibition , ol the pictures I had been contemplating , bade me turn to left . The first object that struck me was a very fat fellow , with a figure , face , and countenance at once so natural and humorous , that Misery itself must have laughed immoderately . The fat fellow appeared in several series ,- in one he and three or four others appeared
running away from two men . Afterwards , in a tavern , with a very big countenance he seemed to be describing some exploit to a young man of an uncommonly graceful appearance ; and pointing to a broken sword , with the ironical expression of the young man ' s face , shewed he did not believe him . £ TO BE CONTJNUEP . *! VOL , . \ % sn .
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Wisdom And Folly.
plexity ; next , in dreadful perturbation , gazing with eager but frig htened earnestness at some object which I could not see ; addressing hideous hugs sitting round a cauldron , and looking ^ at a pale image , pointing to his wounds , with a terror evidently arising from £ riiilt : a woman walking in her sleep , aud rubbing bloody spots on her hands . A third series consisted of a young man surveying a stronger pale
figure in armour , with a terror unmixt with guilt ; a lovely young lady out of her senses—the young man gazing at a grave . The same young mnn in a large company , of which one man was on an elevated seat , looking at persons who seemed to . be players—the man on the high seat starting up with the-strongest marks of terror and guilt .
In another series , a very old nun , with a countenance expressing grief , —successively grief , rage , and indignation : two women , that resembled himself in features , thrusting him out of a door : again , the same old man , with another old man , who was blind , and led by a person in a fantastic dress , but with a noble mien , near a white cliff : againwith a delightful countenance embracing a woman of
, great sweetness of aspect ; and , lastly , holding her dead in his arms , and exh . ibi-. ing the most frantic grief " . A series , representing two lovers in various situations , but at last both dead on . biers , had much of soft and tender melanchoty , though
without marking the phrenzy of passion expressed in the former . These were a few , of a wonderful variety of pathetic pictures on the right side of the chairman , which no person of common imagination could contemplate without believing to be real ; of common sensibility , without experiencing the same passions which the suffering characters in the painting exhibited . I saw many , apparently servants of the paintersemployed in placing
, the pifturesiii what appeared to them the best light . Numbers of those servants were bunglers ; but one David , who , I understood , was the confidential secretary of the chairman , shewed the greatest skill . He also exercised himself upon the works of other painters—A lady , also a great confident of the chairman's chief right hand painters , did not fall short of David .
My Guide , seeing me in the deepest distress from the exhibition , ol the pictures I had been contemplating , bade me turn to left . The first object that struck me was a very fat fellow , with a figure , face , and countenance at once so natural and humorous , that Misery itself must have laughed immoderately . The fat fellow appeared in several series ,- in one he and three or four others appeared
running away from two men . Afterwards , in a tavern , with a very big countenance he seemed to be describing some exploit to a young man of an uncommonly graceful appearance ; and pointing to a broken sword , with the ironical expression of the young man ' s face , shewed he did not believe him . £ TO BE CONTJNUEP . *! VOL , . \ % sn .