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fol. 28r    [fol. 27v, NG letter#17#] 'Of Ideas of Truth … Beauty and Relation' (Pt II, Sn I, Ch I)  (3.135-36)
      
     							
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     <to the circumstance of truth and successful imitation . be added what
     I have just called the upholstery of> art - this <selection> being as I have said
     based on feelings <of> & desires common to all mankind .   is <equally
     appreciable>  in a certain degree . appreciable by all -  more or less indeed
 5   as their senses and instinct have been rendered more acute and
     accurate by practice or study -    but in some degree by all - <and>
     and in the same way . by all .       But the highest art . being based
     on sen<z>sations of peculiar minds .  <at par>   sensations occurring to
     them only at times -  and to a plurality of mankind . perhaps never
10   and being expressive of thoughts - <occurring>  which could only rise
     out of a mass of the most extended knowledge - and of dispositions
     modified in a thousand ways by peculiarity of intellect - can only
     be met and understood - by persons who have sympathy with the
     high & solitary minds which produced it  - sympathy only to be
15   felt by minds in some degree - high & solitary themselves .   He alone
     <coul> can appreciate the art - who could comprehend the conversation
     of the painter .  and share in his emotion - at moments of his most
     fiery passion . & and most original thought.      And whereas the true
     meaning & end of his art must thus be sealed <and> ^ {to thousands or} misunderstood
20   by th<ousands>em<,> , so also - as he ^ {is sometimes} obliged in working out his own peculiar
     end  .  to set at defiance those constant laws which have arisen out of
     our lower & changeless desires - that which is partly unseen - is ^ {often.} - insomuch {far}
      

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