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he saw with his external organ , what he only internally feels and thinks . ' 7 . Sketches to Casti ' s Animali Parlantiy of which he remarks with his usual refinement , that Casti ' s poem supplies fewer
materials to the artist , than the old Reynard , the fox , as its action is more internal than external . —That it is with all its merits rather directly satirical , than poetically ironical . —That these are not animals who act like men , but real men , and moderns too , masked as animals . 9 . Gerard ' s Historical Portraits : A critical notice of the first
two numbers of a collection of engravings , published at Paris , 1826 . Our author lauds the artist for his skill in giving to each person the becoming individuality . The remarks on the portraits of twelve eminent characters of the age , are so written as to apply equally to the person and the image . They all deserve attention , from the Emperor Alexander of Russia , the first , to Madame Recamier , the last . We give this one as a specimen :
* Louis Napoleon , King of Holland , painted 1806 . —We take up this picture reluctantly 3 yet it affords us still some pleasure , because we have before us the man whom we have so strong a personal motive to esteem very highly , —there he is an object of pity . We behold indeed here , his well-formed , upright , and frank countenance , but in such a masquerade as this ( yerkleidung ) we never saw him , nor wished to see him . In a sort of Spanish
costume , —waistcoat , scarf , cloak and ruff , tastefully adorned with lace , tassels , and orders , —he sits in quiet meditation , dressed in white , a dark bright cap with feathers in his right hand , in the left holding a short sword , resting on a cushion 5 behind , a helmet—all excellently composed . It may be to the eye a beautifully
harmonious picture , but to our mind it gives nothing , perhaps because we became acquainted with this excellent ( herrlieh ) man , just after he had renounced these external trappings , and was striving to cultivate in private life , his delicate moral sense , and his love for works of taste . ' I have been often tempted to write upon his very elegant poems and his tragedy Lucretia , but the fear of betraying the confidence so obligingly put in me , has restrained and still restrains me . '
10 . Rnysdael als Dichter , i . e . ' Ruysdael as poet . '—The author expatiates on three works of this eminent landscape painter , and especially on those qualities in them , which , being addressed to the inner sense , he considers as poetical . The mechanical excellences of this artist , Goethe remarks , are acknowledged by those who have never penetrated the "meaning of his landscapes . The originals are in the gallery at Dresden . 11 . Account of some Treasures of Ancient German Art
discovered at Leipzig . Of late years the attention of the public has been drawn to the oldest German school of painting , which even preceded those of the Italians , which eventually eclipsed
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Goethe ' s Works . 277
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/61/
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