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148 and dazled by every Thing that sparkles; But to pass by what the Generality of the World admires, and to be detained with nothing, but what is most perfect, and excellent in its Kind, speaks a superior Genius, and a true Discernment: A new Picture by some meaner Hand, where the Colours are fresh and lively will engage the Eye, but the Pleasure goes off with looking, and what we ran to at ﬁrst with Eagerness, we presently leave with Indifference; but the old Pieces of Raphael, Michael Angelo, Tintoret, and Titian, tho' not so inviting at ﬁrst, open to the Eye by Degrees; and the longer and oftner we look, we Rh