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212 So Reynolds when he came to die, To assuage his bitter woe, Thus aloud did howl & cry : 'Michael Angelo ! Michael Angelo ! '

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To the Royal Academy

A Strange Erratum in all the Editions Of Sir Joshua Reynolds' Lectures Should be corrected by the Young Gentlemen And the Royal Academy's Directors. Instead of ' Michael Angelo,' Read ' Rembrandt ' ; for it is fit To make mere common honesty In all that he has writ.

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If it is true, what the Prophets write, That the Heathen Gods are all stocks and stones, Shall we, for the sake of being Polite, Feed them with the juice of our marrow-bones?

MS. Book, p. 33. WMR and EY with title 'Idolatry.'