ASHMOLEAN LIBRARY, OXFORD 21 NOV 1992 26 MAR 1993 26 MAY 1997 20600 27 APR 2004 29 MAR 2005 15 APR 2005 OR THE LIMITS OF POETRY AND PAINTING. Translated from the German of G. E. LES BY WILLIAM ROSS. Υλη και τρόποις μιμησεῶς διαφερούσι. — Πλουτ. π. Αθ. F.RC Lith. LONDON: J. RIDGWAY & SONS. MDCCCXXXVI. TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND, ETC., ETC. My Lady Duchess, Belonging, as you do, to a Family in which a taste for Poetry and Painting seems almost to be hereditary, and which counts among its kindred one of the greatest of modern Bards,—connected too, as you are, by the tenderest ties, with one of Britain's most distinguished Virtuosi, it might be difficult to select an individual whose name could, with greater propriety than yours, be associated with such a work as the Laocoon of Lessing. I esteem it, therefore, most fortunate, that, in availing myself of your flattering permission to dedicate this volume to your Grace, I am at once enabled to secure for it a distinction so appropriate to the merits of the original, and to gratify my feelings by this public testimony of the deep respect and lively gratitude which must ever be entertained towards your Grace, by. My Lady Duchess, Your Grace's ever faithful and devoted Servant, GLASGOW, May, 1836. WILLIAM BOSS. |