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    home is on the grass and under the glade , and—Bright flow the waters , soft the zephyrs The Sunday ' s fine , and all the City ' s gay . The contractions are cocknev Jfc< 7 VV

    . JHk MtM ^* ^ rm ^*» V * W ^ 'VA ^^ % A / m ^ rf Vl&lAV V and therefore appropriate . There are some pretty bits of Dutch to be picked up in a steamer . Jan Steen , had he been with us , might have

    enriched his Marriage of Cana in Galilee with that gentleman imbibing Guinness ' s . There , to the right , is just such a countenance as the catalogue would give as " A man smoking /' Who said that there was no

    Ideality in the Dutch school ? I never read Cats . " You stole your phrase , sir , from the Athenceum . Put your next original thought in your own livery , or else let it wear plain clothes . " The Dutchman idealizes

    vulgarity , as the Greek idealizes beauty and sublimity . Idealized vulgarity ! Lord pity his » sthetics who does not apprehend the propriety of the

    phrase—the nice truth of the fact . Let us , in our lazy humour , drive a fine wedge just into the angle of cleavage of this hard crystalline lump .

    Is there no such thing as idealized ugliness ? you see ? and what is vulgarity but quintessential deformity ? This is a palpable checkmate : now for an example of stale-mate . Whence the power of the

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    arts 01 Greece or ltajy , but iii expression . The effeet of any artful opus is as it expresses a feeling or sentiment Here is a scene expressive of love ; there a face expressive of aweinspiring dignity ; and there a

    statue expressive of dignified benevolence ; and to fix any one of these expressions on form of stone with greatest power is to idealize it ; that is , reproduce it under the action of

    mental or ideal conception . But there is a scene expressive of the sordid ; or a face expressive of the stupid , or the stolid ; or expressive of simplicity , coarse and boorish : and what does he do

    who selects such circumstances of these as are most expressive , and combines and arranges , leaves out or introduces them on the canvas ^ so as to realize in congenial minds —( George IV had the finest collection of

    Dutch paintings in Europe ) - — most perfectly and permanently their appropriate expression , such as it is , but still expression , but idealize them ?

    We are at home . London , indeed , has a treasure in her bridges : I speak not of their architecture : I now regard them merely as standing places from which to catch the effects

    which sky and water , whether clear or cloudy , always afford , the sun gleaming through the beautiful campanile of ISt Paul ' s ; or even the coloured crowd of promenaders before the Custom-house . Hie we to the heart of our homes . L . D .

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    Greenwich—Its Pensioners and its Pictures . 239

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/15/