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It is very remarkable that in no part of his writings does Milton take any notice of the great painters of Italy, nor, indeed, of painting as an art; whilst every other page breathes his love and taste for music. Yet it is curious that, in one passage in the Paradise Lost, Milton has certainly copied the _fresco_ of the Creation in the Sistine Chapel at Rome. I mean those lines, --
-- -- "now half appear'd / The tawny lion, pawing to get free / His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds, / And rampant shakes his brinded mane; -- "&c.[1]