The Naturalists’ Monthly
A Journal for Nature-Lovers and Nature-Thinkers
Edited by Dr. J. W. Williams, M.A.
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Part III. Ready October 25th.
London: Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.
Footnotes
1 Lib. 2, in Timæum Platonis, as cited by Junius de Pictura Veterum.—R.
2 Essays, p. 252, edit. 1625.
3 “Those,” says Quintilian, “who are taken with the outward show of things, think that there is more beauty in persons who are trimmed, curled, and painted, than uncorrupt nature can give; as if beauty were merely the effect of the corruption of manners.”—R.
4 Sed non qui maxime imitandus, etiam solus imitandus est Quintilian.
5 Dr. Goldsmith.
6 “Nulla ars, non alterius artis, aut mater, aut popinqua est.”—Tertull as cited by Junius.
7 “Omnes artes quæ ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione inter se continentur.”—Cicero.
8 “Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.”—Exodus iii. 5.
9 Discourses II. and VI.
10 This was inadvertently said. I did not recollect the admirable treatise On the Sublime and Beautiful.
11 Sir William Chambers.
12 In the Loggia dei Lauzi at Florence.—Note, Ed.
13 Discourse III.
14 In Ben Jonson’s “Catiline” we find this aphorism, with a slight variation:—
“A serpent, ere he comes to be a dragon,
Must eat a bat.”
15 The addition of accio denotes contempt, or some deformity or imperfection attending the person to whom it is applied.
16 “Towers and Battlements it sees
Bosom’d high in tufted trees.”—Milton, L’All.
17 Mr. Hodges.
18 James Harris.
19 Pictura quoque non alium exitum fecit, postquam Ægyptiorum audacia tam magnæ artis compendiariam invenit.
20 Che Raffaelle non ebbe quest’ arte da natura, ma per lungo studio.
21 Unfortunately for mankind, these were the last words pronounced by this great Painter from the Academical chair. He died about fourteen months after this Discourse was delivered.