RAPHAEL, when he first drew his meagre forms under Perugino, had not yet conceived one line of that ideal beauty which one day he of all men could alone execute.

Who could have imagined, in examining the _Dream_ of Raphael, that the same pencil could hereafter have poured out the miraculous _Transfiguration ?_ Or that, in the imitative pupil of Hudson, our country was at length to pride herself on another Raphael ?[A] [Footnote A: Hudson was the fashionable portrait-painter who succeeded Kneller, and made a great reputation and fortune; but he was a very mean artist, who merely copied the peculiarities of his predecessor without his genius.

His stiff hard style was formality itself; but was approved in an age of formalism; the earlier half of the last century .-- ED.] Even the manhood of genius may pass unobserved by his companions, and, like.

AEneas, he may be hidden in a cloud amidst his associates.

The celebrated FABIUS MAXIMUS in his boyhood was called in derision "the little sheep," from the meekness and gravity of his disposition.