"Teneri sdegni, e placide e tranquille Repulse, cari vezzi, e liete paci, Sorrisi, parolette, e dolci stille Di pianto, e sospir tronchi, e molli baci: Fuse tai cose tutte, e poscia unille, Ed al foco temprò di lente faci; E ne formò quel sì mirabil cinto, Di ch' ella aveva il bel fianco succincto.' "These ingredients have been tried, they have been tasted, they are the fruits of a lover's paradise; yet, here they are nothing but an empty catalogue; and if they have a charm, it lies in the melting genius of the language: compare them with the following lines from the Vision of Arthur, in Spenser. "Caresses sweet, and lovely blandishment, She to me made, and bade me love her dear, For dearly sure her love to me was bent, As when meet time approached, should appear; But whether dreams delude, or true it were, Was never heart so ravished with delight. "When I awoke and found her place devoid, And nought but pressed grass, where she had lyen, I sorrowed as much as erst I joyed, And washed all the place with watery eyn; From that day forth I cast in careful mind, To seek her out---- "Thus, as he spoke, his visage waxed pale. Here is soul, action, passion. "Adieu, "Henry Fuseli." CHAPTER XV. Character of Fuseli as an Artist.--His early style.--His ardent pursuit of excellence in design.--His neglect of mechanical means, particularly as regards Colours.--His professional independence, unmixed with obstinacy.--His preeminent faculty of invention, and success in the portraiture of the ideal.--His deficiencies as to correctness, and disinclination to laborious finish.--Causes of his limited popularity as a Painter.--His felicity in Likenesses.--His colour and chiar' oscuro.--His qualities as a Teacher of the Fine Arts.--His ardent love of Art.--Arrangements as to the disposal of his Works, &c.--List of his Subjects exhibited at the Royal Academy, from 1774 to 1825. It now remains to speak of Fuseli as an artist, and on this subject it is not necessary to be very diffuse, having been favoured with the able article, to be found in the Appendix, from the pen of William Young Ottley, Esq., a gentleman who was for many years the intimate friend of Fuseli, whose talents as an _amateur_ artist, whose knowledge, taste, and judgment in the Fine Arts are so eminently conspicuous, and whose claims to distinction are so well known to the public by his various works.