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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 747 — INTERCHAPTER VI.

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In judging pictures he would, indeed, have been almost equally liable to be “connoisseured out of his senses,” but the interference was less authoritative. Towards the end of the century the prophets of the Picturesque tried to invade prospects also with their preceptism: but Nature laughed at them too obviously.

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