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ti'ons
of
Venice,
he
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not
perfectly
satisfied
with its soundness as a rule, till many years after
his arrival in London, and many unsuccessful
experiments.
Having
completed
his
tour
to
the
most
Celebrated repositories of art in Italy, and enriched
his mind, and improved his taste, by the peru-
sal
rather
than
the imitation of
their best pieces,
he
returned
to
Rome,
and
aPP1ied
himself
to
minute
and
assiduous
study
of
the
great
ments
of
that
capital,
directing
his
principal
of Raphael, and improving
attention to the works
his
knowledge
of
the
antient
costume
by
the
study
of
Cameos,
which
he
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assisted
by
the author of
Mr. Wilcox,
Roman Conversa-
the
tions,-to whom he had been introduced -by Mr.
Robinson, at Mr. Crespi_gne"s, on the occasion of
of the Portrait,-a man of singular
the exhibition
Httainments in learning, and of a serene and com-
Posed dignity of mind and
that rendered
manners
more remarkable to
him
strangers
than
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his
great classical knowledge.
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