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fol. 27r [fol. 26v, NG letter] 'Of Ideas of Truth … Beauty and Relation' (Pt II, Sn I, Ch I) (3.134-35)
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#16#< of execution constantly fallen into . because the artist addresses only those
parts of our nature which are constant and common - shared by all .
and perpetual in all - such for instance as the pleasure of the eye
in the opposition of <blue> a cold with a warm colour . of a massy form
5 with a refined one - &c . Hence arise those rules of art which
properly excited Reynolds indignation - as applied to {its} highest. efforts >
For <intellectual> art in its second , & highest aim . is not an
appeal to constant animal feelings . but an expression and
awakening of individual thought . it is therefore as various &[?]<in> &
10 <its> extended in its efforts as the compass & grasp of the directing
mind . <and constantly sets at defiance. in expressing the
{particular} thoughts of those principles which are based on generalfeelings>.
and we feel in <which> each of its <efforts> {results} . that we are looking
not at a specimen of a tradesmans wares . of which he is ready
15 to make us a dozen to match - but at one coruscation of a
perpetually active <cleve> mind . like which there has not been . &
will not be, another .
Again . <Since> In the simple imitation of natural objects . there will generally
be something . agreeable to every kind of mind . some source of pleasure
20 opened for all - The very circumstance of successful imitation is sufficient
for low minds . and there will be always some part or parts of
the subject & its details - <agree> agreeable even to the highest. And if
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