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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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