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figures ; sometimes young nymphs , sometirnes curiously-shaped animals , sometimes flowers , arid then again it Resolves itself back to the group of trees , through which shine , so joyously , the rays of the setting sun . ' ' Ah ! sir / said Edmund , ' you have a penetrating eye and a profound judgment . Have you not , when giving yourself up to the contemplation of nature , fancied that millions of creatures dart burning glances upon you from the midst of the sweet leafy thickets ? I wished to realize those feelings in this composition , and I have succeeded . '
' I understand you , ' said Leonard , in a dry tone ; ' you wish to be untrammelled in your study ; to give full play to your fancy . * ' By no means , sir , ' replied Edmund ; ' but I do consider this working after nature as the best of studies . I find true poetry in it ; which is as requisite for landscape as for historical painting . ' 'May heaven assist you , my dear Edmund , ' said Leonard . ' What P exclaimed Edmund , ' do you know me , sir ?' ' Yes , I do know you , replied Leonard ; ' I made your acquaintance at the moment of your birth . I left Berlin , however , when you were very young . ' ' "Sir / said Edmund , ' are you not master Leonard ? i
' Yes , I am , ' replied the goldsmith , ' thou gh I am rather astonished that you have any recollection of me . ' ' My father , ' said the young man , ' often talked about you . He told me that you had drawn my horoscope , and that I was either to be a great artist or a great fool . Do you think , sir , that the
horoscope will be accomplished ? ' Yes , certainly / said the goldsmith , dryly ; ' I think that you are at this time in an excellent track to become a great fool . ' ' What , sir , ' exclaimed Edmund , ' do you '
(c It depends entirely upon yourself , ' continued the goldsmith , to escape this sad alternative , and to become a great artist . Thy
designs and sketches proclaim an imagination bold and rich ; upon such foundations you may erect a solid edifice . Renounce the fashionable exaggerations , and give yourself to serious study . ' The goldsmith continued to speak upon the theory of painting , and Edmund felt himself irresistibly drawn towards him . In return for the friendship of the young painter , Leonard established himself the rigorous critic of his works . In this mannel * was formed an acquaintance betwixt the young scholar full of hope ^ and the old master full of science .
Not long after it happened , on a fine summer ' s evening , that not one of the cigars of the Counsellor Melchior Vossvvinkel , who was sitting near the lodge of the botanical garden , would burn . The counsellor threw them upon the grass one after the other , exclaiming , ' Good heavens , have I imported my own cigars hi large quantities from Hamburgh , to be thus annoyed in my favourite recreation ? It is too bad , really /
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186 The thrice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/42/
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