XVI.

That is, with Men: with Women he was what

They pleased to make or take him for; and their

Imagination's quite enough for that:

So that the outline's tolerably fair,

They fill the canvas up—and "verbum sat." [737]If once their phantasies be brought to bear

Upon an object, whether sad or playful,

They can transfigure brighter than a Raphael.[738]

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