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p. 58.  Prose. — In this manner the English public . . . but day do not draw de draw. [Advt.]
Prose. — Resentment for Personal Injuries has had some share in this public address but love to my art and zeal for my country a much greater. [Advt.]
p. 59.  Sketch. — For Gates of Paradise.
Prose. — Men think they can Copy Nature . . . manifest to all. [Advt.]
Extract. — From Bell's Weekly Messenger, Aug. 4th 1811 etc.
p. 60.  I asked my Dear Friend Orator Prig. [MS. Book cxvi.]
That God is Colouring Newton does show. [MS. Book cxviii.]
Prose. — Cooke wished to give to Hogarth . . . but he could not. [Adv.]
p. 61.  Sketch. — For Gates of Paradise — What we hope we see.
O dear Mother Outline of wisdom most sage. [MS. Book cxvii.]
To Venetian Artists : Perhaps this little Fable may make us merry. [MS. Book cxviii.]
Prose. — Englishmen rouse yourselves . . . Hogarth's works prove. [Advt.]
p. 62.  Prose. — A detestable Falsehood . . . God or man. [Advt.]
Prose. — I do not mean smooth'd up & Nigled & Poco Pen'd and all the beauties [picked out] blurr'd & blotted but Drawn with a firm & decided hand at once, like Fuseli & Michael Angelo, Shakespeare & Milton. [Advt.]
Some laugh at what others can see no crime in. [MS. Book cxx.]
p. 63.  Sketch. — For Gates of Paradise — I found him beneath a tree.
I've given great Provision to my Foes. [MS. Book cxx.]
Prose. — Whoever looks at any ... to look at his print. [Advt.]
Later Note. — He who could represent Christ . . . fine art. [Advt.]
*Great Men and Fools do often me inspire. [MS. Book cxix.]
p. 64.  Extract. — From Cratelos. Me time has crook'd, no good workman Is he, Infirm is all that he does.
Prose.— I do not know whether Homer . . . trading competition. [Advt.]
Note. — I always thought that Jesus Christ was a snubby or I should not have worshipped him if I thought he had been one of those long spindled nosed rascals.
p. 65.  Having given great offence by writing in Prose. [MS. Book cxx.]
Prose. — Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims. Being a complete Index of Human Characters as they exist age after age. [Title for Advt.]
If men will act like a maid smiling over a churn. [MS. Book cxxi.]
Sketch. — For Songs of Experience — The Angel.
p. 66.  Prose. — The English artist . . . Vasari tells us. [Advt.]
Call that the Public Voice which is their Error. [MS. Book cxxii.]
Prose. — What kind of intellect ... & not the forms of Things. [Advt]
Prose. — Let us teach Buonaparte & whomsoever else it may concern that it is not Arts that follow & attend upon Empire but Empire that attends upon & follows The Arts. [Advt.]
Prose. — It is nonsense for Noblemen . . . but not to make a Man. [Advt.]
p. 67.  Sketch.— Profile of Blake. [See WMR. (c).]