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fol. 20r   	[fol. 19v is blank]     Chapter IV in Part I, Section I: 'Of Ideas of Imitation' (3.102)
      
      
      
     	*..*<s> of precisely the same order & degree . whether it be received from the
     		imitation of the bustles of a woman - or the tears of a Magdalen <it
     implies exactly the same degree of feeling ^ {received} and influence exerted .
     		whether by *…….* or Carlo Dolci .  and> in both cases . rendering it
 5   totally impossible that any feeling of a higher order should be experienced
     at the same time .  <It occupies all the faculties - in the basest
     		possible manner .>  We may consider tears as a result of agony - or
     of *……..* . whichever we please . but not both at the same <time> moment .
     		If we are surprised by them as a form of the one . it is impossible we
10   can be affected by them .as a sign of the other  .
     		Secondly . Because not only <t>do they preclude the spectator from enjoying
     any inhererent beauty in the subject . but they can only be received from
     		mean & paltry subjects -   It is impossible to imitate anything noble .
     We can paint a cat or a fiddle - so that they look as if we could take
15   them up - but we cannot imitate the ocean - or the Alps .
     		We can imitate fruit - but not a tree - flowers - but not a pasture -
     cut glass - but not {the} rainbow<s> .  All pictures in which deceptive powers
     		of imitation are displayed, are therefore either of contemptible subjects .or
     have the imitation shown on contemptible parts of them - bits of dress -
20   necklaces - bas reliefs - <hats> &c.

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