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fol. 25r    [fol. 24v, NG letter]       'Of Ideas of Truth … Beauty and Relation' (Pt II, Sn I, Ch I)  (3.134)
      
      
      
     the artist not only places the spectator. - but talks to him . makes him
     a sharer in his own strong feelings and quick thoughts - hurries him
     away in his own enthusiasm - guides him to all that is beautiful -
     snatches him from <what> {all that} is base - and leaves him more than
 5   delighted - ennobled and instructed - <with> {under} the sense - <not so much
     that he has> {of having not only} beheld a new scene - {but} as {<of having>} <that> he <has> held communion
     with a new mind - of having visited a strange place - in such
     company as made him forget the reality - <and permitted him
     not to think {or judge} <for himself> - but>     in the glow which was cast over
10   it from <a> {the} higher mind - as permitted him not to <think> {see} or
     judge for himself - but <swept him away> endowed him with
     the keen perception - and ^ {carried him away with} the impetuous feeling . of <his> {a} nobler
     <guide> and more penetrating intelligence .
     <It is only in so <fa> much as he attains the last of these objects of
15   art . that the painter ranks with the poet . or has power over the
     is deserving of the> .
     Now . my first wish is to impress ^ {clearly & for ever <on>} on my readers - the difference
     between these two ends of art. & the qualities of mind required
     to attain them..     No mean intellect is required to compass the first -
20   (for it is not an easy thing to imitate Nature truthfully) - but it is the
     intellect of the logician <or> {&} the mechanist - not of the moralist or the
     poet -  It is pure reasoning - simple exercise of the purely intellectual
     								powers.
      

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