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Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks

Note 327 — INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CONNOISSEUR.

Henry Fuseli translation

So are the goddesses of the Theopægnia at Blenheim, in Oxfordshire; and hence it is clear, that another Venus, analogous to that in the Tribuna, among the pictures of a gentleman in London, cannot be the production of that genius-in-flesh only. This daughter of the Idalian graces seems to thrill with inward pleasure, and to recollect a night of bliss——

There is language in her eye, her cheek, her lip: Nay, her foot speaks—— Shakespear.

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