Modern Painters Volume I
The work now laid before the public originated in indignation at the shallow and false criticism of the periodicals of the day on the works of the great living
The work now laid before the public originated in indignation at the shallow and false criticism of the periodicals of the day on the works of the great living artist to whom it principally refers. It was intended to be a short pamphlet, reprobating the matter and style of those critiques, and pointing out their perilous tendency, as guides of public feeling.
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