Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 54
ically paints them vomiting wine andinsults, he employs a talent full of warmth, delicacy,and harmony, to make us pardon what he wishes tomake us admire. As soon as he chooses a subject, the artist shouldthink of the picturesque and distrust the literarybeauties which may have charmed him in the… … AJi.-CADASSON.D.i J.OulLLAuMC S VCLTAIKIi b bTAlKCASE. PAINTING. 29 Suppose a painter wishes to express what he hasheard, or has thought himself, that Voltaire is thepersonification of the eighteenth century, that allproceeds from his genius and is to be absorbed in itagain, that he is the centre…
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