An Essay on Painting: In Two Epistles to Mr. Romney |
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... fancy fraught With finest forms by ancient genius wrought ; Whose magic beauty charm'd , with spell fublime , The scythe of Ruin from the hand of Time , And mov'd the mighty leveller to spare Models of grace fo exquifitely fair . While ...
... fancy fraught With finest forms by ancient genius wrought ; Whose magic beauty charm'd , with spell fublime , The scythe of Ruin from the hand of Time , And mov'd the mighty leveller to spare Models of grace fo exquifitely fair . While ...
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... Fancy's region turn aside , And quit the magic of her fcene , to trace The vacant lines of fome unmeaning face : E'en in this work his wifhes ftill are croft , And all the efforts of his art are loft ; 15 Painting , sweet Nymph ! now ...
... Fancy's region turn aside , And quit the magic of her fcene , to trace The vacant lines of fome unmeaning face : E'en in this work his wifhes ftill are croft , And all the efforts of his art are loft ; 15 Painting , sweet Nymph ! now ...
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... Fancy's aid - she comes to spread Her magic spells -- the Gothic forms are fled ; And fee , to crown the painter's juft defire , Her free pofitions , and her light attire ! Th ' ambitious artift wishes to pursue This brilliant plan with ...
... Fancy's aid - she comes to spread Her magic spells -- the Gothic forms are fled ; And fee , to crown the painter's juft defire , Her free pofitions , and her light attire ! Th ' ambitious artift wishes to pursue This brilliant plan with ...
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... fancy and of tafte perplex ; 80 For male and female , to themselves unknown , 8 : 5 Demand a character unlike their own , Till oft the painter to this quaint distress Prefers the awkward shapes of common drefs . Sweet girls , of mild ...
... fancy and of tafte perplex ; 80 For male and female , to themselves unknown , 8 : 5 Demand a character unlike their own , Till oft the painter to this quaint distress Prefers the awkward shapes of common drefs . Sweet girls , of mild ...
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... fancy , ftill to nature just , Copied her line , and form'd the mimic buft . Thus from thy power , inspiring Love , we trace The modell❜d image , and the pencil'd face ! * Ver . 126. See NOTE IV . C 120 125 130 135 We We pity Genius ...
... fancy , ftill to nature just , Copied her line , and form'd the mimic buft . Thus from thy power , inspiring Love , we trace The modell❜d image , and the pencil'd face ! * Ver . 126. See NOTE IV . C 120 125 130 135 We We pity Genius ...
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Page 134 - ... that philosophical, that geometrical, and systematical spirit so much in vogue, which has spread itself from the sciences even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment ; and made our poets write from and to the head, rather than the heart...
Page 86 - Tis only wanting to this age, not thee. Thy genius, bounded by the times, like mine, Drudges on petty draughts, nor dare design A more exalted work, and more divine.
Page 134 - ... that influence them. Whether or no, the natural powers be not confined and debilitated by that timidity and caution which is occasioned by a rigid regard to the dictates of art...