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Sir Joshua Praises Michael Angelo [(And counts it courage) Is it Politeness thus to praise his foe] Tis Christian Mildness when [fools] Knaves Praise a Foe But Twould be Madness [that we all must] all the World would say [If…

S——, in childhood, on the nursery floor, Was extreme old and most extremely poor: He has grown old, and rich, and what he will; He is extreme old, and extreme poor still.

Can there be any thing more mean, More Malice in disguise, Than Praise a Man for doing what That Man does most despise? Reynolds Lectures Exactly so When he praises Michael Angelo.

To H[unt] You think Fuseli is not a Great Painter, I’m Glad: This is one of the best compliments he ever had.

“Madman” I have been call’d: “Fool” they call thee. I wonder which they Envy, Thee or Me?

The Sussex Men are Noted Fools And weak is their brain pan I wonder if H[aines] the painter Is not a Sussex Man

Anger & Wrath my bosom rends: I thought them the Errors of friends. But all my limbs with warmth glow: I find them the Errors of the foe.

Was I angry with Hayley who us’d me so ill. Or can I be angry with Felpham’s old Mill? Or angry with Flaxman or Cromek or Stothard Or poor Schiavonetti, whom they to death bother’d? 5Or angry with Macklin or…

And his legs carried it like a long fork, Reached all the way from Chichester to York, From York all across Scotland to the sea; This was a Man of Men, as seems to me. Not only in his Mouth…

You don’t believe — I won’t attempt to make ye: You are asleep — I won’t attempt to wake ye. Sleep on! sleep on! while in your pleasant dreams Of Reason you may drink of Life’s clear streams. Reason and…