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O dear Mother Outline ! of wisdom most sage
On the Foundation of the Royal Academy
These are the idiots' chiefest arts
The cripple every step drudges and labours
You say their pictures well painted be .
When you look at a picture, you always can
The Washerwoman's Song .
English Encouragement of Art : Cromek':
rhyme ......
When I see a Rubens, Rembrandt, Correggi
Give pensions to the learned pig .
On Sir Joshua Reynolds' disappointment at h
Raphael
Sir Joshua praised Rubens with a smile
Sir Joshua praises Michael Angelo
Can there be anything more mean
To the Royal Academy
Florentine Ingratitude ....
No real style of colouring ever appears
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died .
A Pitiful Case
On Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Rubens, am a statesman and a saint .
On the school of Rubens
To English Connoisseurs
A Pretty Epigram for the encouragement of those who
great sums in the Venetian and Flemish ooze
Raphael, sublime, majestic, graceful, wise
On the Venetian Painter
A pair of stays to mend the shape
Venetian ! all thy colouring is no more .
To Venetian Artists ....
All pictures that's painted with sense and wi
put
ons of
th thought
Call that the public voice which is their error !
On Friends and Foes
I am no Homer's hero you all know ....
Anger and wrath my bosom rends .
If you play a game of chance, know, before you begin .
Of Hayley's birth : Of H 's birth this was the happy lot
On Hayley : To forgive enemies H does pretend .
To Hayley : Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache .
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