Starting from the impressions Millevoye’s poem evokes, she posed the question of how deliberately he then executed his intention. Having prepared his canvas in this way and traced the first rough outlines of his sketch, has he not carefully sought out the details, assembled the images appropriate for making his principal idea stand out? Has he not weighed each thought carefully, considered thoroughly each secondary thought, minutely measured and adjusted each part of the great Whole in such a way that their union will not sin against the master-principle of composition, the principle of Unity?
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