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"Musa, mihi causas memora ..., "O Muse, recount to me the causes ..."" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid

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"The excellency of this extraordinary "man" lay in the propriety, beauty, and majesty of "his" characters, "his" judicious contrivance of "his" composition, correctness of drawing, purity of taste, and the skilful accommodation of other "men’s" conceptions to "his" own purpose. Nobody excelled "him" in that judgment, with which "he" united to "his" own observations on nature the energy of Michael Angelo, and the beauty and simplicity of the antique. To the question, therefore, which ought to hold the first rank, Raffaelle or Michael Angelo, it must be answered, that if it is to be given to "him" who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other "man", there is no doubt but Raffaelle is the first."

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