The reader will notice, that, in a few instances, the same notions and expressions are repeated; a circumstance which occasioned from an eminent artist, (the late Sir Thomas Lawrence,) for whose opinion and talents I had great respect, a recommendation to "use the pruning-knife." But it appeared to me, after due consideration, to be preferable that I should print the manuscripts as they came into my hands; for to have omitted these passages might have disturbed the connexion of the reasoning and rendered the author's ideas less apparent to the reader; I therefore present his works to the world without any omission, alteration, or addition on my part. John Knowles. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. CHAPTER I. Fuseli's birth and family.--Passion for drawing manifested in his childhood.--His destination for the Church.--Singular cause of _ambidexterity_.--Fuseli's early fondness for entomology.--He enters the Collegium Carolinum at Zurich.--His associates there: Lavater, Usteri, Tomman, Jacob and Felix Hess.--Professors Bodmer and Breitinger.--His partiality for Shakspeare, &c.--His turn for satire called forth at the College.--He courts the Poetic Muse.--Enters into holy orders at the same time with Lavater.--State of Pulpit oratory in Zurich.--Fuseli and Lavater become champions of the public cause against a magistrate of Zurich.--Quits Zurich Page 1 CHAPTER II. The friends are accompanied in their journey by Professor Sulzer.--They visit Augsburgh and Leipsic.--Arrive at Berlin.--Fuseli furnishes some designs for Bodmer's work.--Baron Arnheim.--Fuseli visits Barth, in Pomerania, where he pursues his studies for six months under Professor Spalding.--Motives which induce him to visit England, where he arrives in 1763, under the protection of Sir Andrew Mitchell.--Lord Scarsdale: Mr. Coutts: Mr. Andrew Millar: Mr. Joseph Johnson.--Fuseli receives engagements from the booksellers.--His first residence in London: becomes acquainted with Smollet: Falconer: A. Kauffman: Mrs. Lloyd: Mr. Cadell: Garrick.--Fuseli accepts, and shortly after relinquishes the charge of travelling tutor to the son of Earl Waldegrave.--His first interview with Sir Joshua Reynolds.--His earliest production in oil painting.--He visits Liverpool.--Takes part in Rousseau's quarrel with Hume and Voltaire, (1767) and exerts his pen in the cause of his countryman 22 CHAPTER III.