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Gentleman's Magazine 1843 part 2 p.469
avoiding all impressions too forcible and overwhelming, and such as would impair the calmness and serenity of the mind; and by imparting to it only such gentle emotions as may enable it to preserve unimpaired its powers of judgment and taste, and by its own suggestions fill up the outline which the artist had only sketched, - to multiply its beauty into a thousand new and unexpected forms, and, by the prevailing tone and general harmony of the whole, to give, as it were, the hint, the key-note of the impression which they desired to produce; and to this point, both in the treatment of the composition and in the tone and harmony of colour, their aim was directed; and, while the main purpose was in view, we allow that they sometimes neglected those particular forms and exact delineations, which has called forth such sever criticism in the present work.
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