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xl ''If this work meets with success, I shall owe it chiefly to the grandeur and majesty of the subject. However I do not think that I have been totally deficient in point cf genius. When I have seen what so many great men both in Fran, England and Germany have said before me, I have been lost in admiration; but I have not lost my courage: I have said with Correggio, And I also am a painter.'' Rh