Gothic essays, he will find original, rational, and even sublime
inventions.

In the luxuriant style of Paul Veronese, in the capricious compositions
of Tintoret, he will find something that will assist his invention, and
give points, from which his own imagination shall rise and take flight,
when the subject which he treats will, with propriety, admit of splendid
effects.

In every school, whether Venetian, French, or Dutch, he will find either
ingenious compositions, extraordinary effects, some peculiar expressions,
or some mechanical excellence, well worthy his attention and, in some
measure, of his imitation; even in the lower class of the French
painters, great beauties are often found united with great defects.

Though Coypel wanted a simplicity of taste, and mistook a presumptuous
and assuming air for what is grand and majestic; yet he frequently has
good sense and judgment in his manner of telling his stories, great skill
in his compositions, and is not without a considerable power of
expressing the passions, The modern affectation of grace in his works, as
well as in those of Bouche and Watteau, may be said to be separated by a
very thin partition from the more simple and pure grace of Correggio and
Parmigiano.

Amongst the Dutch painters, the correct, firm, and determined pencil,
which was employed by Bamboccio and Jan Miel on vulgar and mean subjects,
might without any change be employed on the highest, to which, indeed, it
seems more properly to belong. The greatest style, if that style is
confined to small figures such as Poussin generally painted, would
receive an additional grace by the elegance and precision of pencil so