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For the life of me, I cannot seem to understand what this man is saying.
The story in question is William Willson.
https://poestories.com/read/williamwilson
What does the bold part mean?
What letter? What painting? There are no letters or paintings in the story
That the school, indeed, did not feel his design, perceive its accomplishment, and participate in his sneer, was, for many anxious months, a riddle I could not resolve. Perhaps the gradation of his copy rendered it not so readily perceptible; or, more possibly, I owed my security to the master air of the copyist, who, disdaining the letter, (which in a painting is all the obtuse can see,) gave but the full spirit of his original for my individual contemplation and chagrin.
Thanks so much,
D.C.
The story in question is William Willson.
https://poestories.com/read/williamwilson
What does the bold part mean?
What letter? What painting? There are no letters or paintings in the story
That the school, indeed, did not feel his design, perceive its accomplishment, and participate in his sneer, was, for many anxious months, a riddle I could not resolve. Perhaps the gradation of his copy rendered it not so readily perceptible; or, more possibly, I owed my security to the master air of the copyist, who, disdaining the letter, (which in a painting is all the obtuse can see,) gave but the full spirit of his original for my individual contemplation and chagrin.
Thanks so much,
D.C.
