text:  He takes leave of the Academy affectionately and like a truth-loving man to the last acknowledges the little contentions (in so softening a manner does he speak of the "rough hostility of Barry " and "oppositions of Gainsborough") which "ought certainly " says he "to be lost among ourselves in mutual esteem for talents and acquirements: every controversy ought to be--I am persuaded will be--sunk in our zeal for the perfection of our common art