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"Something!" exclaimed the other; "you always cry write Fuseli write! blastation! what shall I write?" "Write," said Armstrong, who was present, "write on the Voltaire and Rousseau Row there is a subject!" He said nothing, but went home and began to write. His enthusiastic temper spurred him on, so that he composed his essay with uncommon rapidity.
Fuseli shook him heartily by the hand, and cried, "Blastation! you shall have the tickets with all my heart; I have had the opinion of the virtuosi, the dilettanti, the cognoscenti, and the nobles and gentry on my pictures, and I want now the opinion of the blackguards. I shall send you and your friends a score of tickets, and thank you too for taking them."
Fuseli mentions Reynolds in his Lectures, as a great portrait painter, and no more. One evening in company, Sir Thomas Lawrence was discoursing on what he called the "historic grandeur" of Sir Joshua, and contrasting him with Titian and Raffaelle. Fuseli kindled up "Blastation! you will drive me mad Reynolds and Raffaelle! a dwarf and a giant! why will you waste all your fine words?"
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