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322 Buy Pictures. The Artist who does not throw his Contempt on such Trading Exhibitions, does not know either his own Interest or his Duty.' Gil. i. 258, 259, WMR (' Epig. XIX '), EY ii. 324.

1 When. . . Cold] Gil. and WMR print as two lines. 3 And. . . Gold] Gil. and WMR print as two lines. 4 Aged Sixty-three] Gil. and WMR print as a separate line, in italics. See Introduction.

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On the Venetian Painter

He makes the Lame to walk, we all agree, But then he Strives to blind all who can see.

Reynolds, vol. i, p. 98. Suggested by the following passage in the fourth Discourse : — ' By this it appears that the principal attention of the Venetian painters, in the opinion of Michael Angelo, seemed to be engrossed by the study of colours, to the neglect of the ideal beauty of form, or propriety of expression. But if general censure was given to that school from the sight of a picture of Titian, how much more heavily and more justly would the censure fall on Paolo Veronese, and more especially on Tintoret ? ' Blake prefaces his couplet by the note : — ' Venetian attention is to a Con- tempt & Neglect of Form Itself, & to the Destruction of ail Form or Outline, Purposely & Intentionally. As if Mich. Ang. had seen but One Picture of Titian ! Mich. Ang. knew & despised all that Titian could do.'

Gil. i. 264, WMR (' Epig.' iv), EY ii.

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A pair of Stays to mend the Shape Of crooked Humpy Woman, Put on, O Venus ; now thou art Quite a Venetian Roman.

Reynolds, vol. i, p. 99. Following Blake's prose note : — ' If the Venetian's Outline was Right, his Shadows would destroy it & deform its appearance.' Printed only by EY ii. 333.