ON GENIUS AND ORIGINALITY
[211]. If Raphael, for instance, had only copied, etc. See Reynolds’s Twelfth Discourse. [212]. ‘Sole sitting,’ etc. Wordsworth, Poems on the Naming of Places, IV. ‘Beauty, rendered still more beautiful.’ Cf.
‘——And he would gaze till it became
Far lovelier, and his heart could not sustain
The beauty, still more beauteous.’
Wordsworth, Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, 35–37.