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From a Lecture by Sir Godfrey Knellere. in the Marquis of Buckinghams Collection at Stowe:

Published by Cadell & Davies, Strand, and the other Proprietors May 1,1807.

A Face untaught to feign; a judging Eye,
That darts fevere upon a rifing Lie,
And strikes a blush through frontless Flattery.
All this thou wert; and being this before,
Know, Kings and Fortune cannot make thee more.
Then scorn to gain a Friend by servile ways,
Nor wish to lose a Foe these Virtues raise;
But candid, free, fincere, as you began,
Proceed-a Minister, but still a Man.
Be not (exalted to whate'er degree)
Asham'd of any Friend, not ev'n of Me:
The Patriot's plain, but untrod, path pursue;
If not, 'tis I must be asham'd of You.

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I SHALL add a dialogue by Mr. Pope, in verse, that is genuine:

POPE.

" Since my old friend is grown so great,
As to be Minifter of State,

I'm told, but 'tis not true I hope,

That Craggs will be asham'd of Pope."

CRAGGS.

"Alas! if I am such a creature,

To grow the worse for growing greater;
Why, faith, in spite of all my brags,
Tis Pope must be asham'd of Craggs."

WARTON.

WITH MR. DRYDEN'S TRANSLATION OF FRESNOY'S
ART OF PAINTING.

THIS Verse be

thine, my friend, nor thou refuse

This, from no venal or ungrateful Muse. Whether thy hand strike out some free design, Where Life awakes, and dawns at ev'ry line; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, And from the canvass call the mimic face : Read these instructive leaves, in which conspire Fresnoy's close Art, and Dryden's native Fire:

NOTES,

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Epistle to Mr. Fervas] This Epistle and the two following were written some years before the rest, and originally printed in POPE.

1717.

Jervas owed much more of his reputation to this Epistle than to his skill as a painter. "He was defective," says Mr. Walpole, " in drawing, colouring, and compofition; his pictures are a light, flimzy kind of fan-painting, as large as the life; his vanity was excessive." The reason why Lady Bridgewater's name is so frequently repeated in this Epistle, is, because Jervas affected to be violently in love with her. As she was fitting to him one day, he ran over the beauties of her face with rapture; but added, "I cannot help telling your Ladyship you have not an handsome ear." "No!-Pray, Mr. Jervas, what is a handsome ear?" He turned afide his cap, and shewed his own! WARTON,

And reading wish, like theirs, our fate and fame,
So mix'd our studies, and fo join'd our name;
Like them to shine through long fucceeding age,
So just thy skill, so regular my rage.

Smit with the love of Sister-Arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame; Like friendly colours found them both unite,

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And each from each contract new strength and light.

How oft' in pleasing tasks we wear the day,

While fummer-funs roll unperceiv'd away?

How oft our flowly-growing works impart,

While Images reflect from art to art?

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How oft review; each finding like a friend
Something to blame, and something to commend?

What flatt'ring scenes our wand'ring fancy wrought, Rome's pompous glories rising to our thought! Together o'er the Alps methinks we fly,

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Fir'd with Ideas of fair Italy.
With thee, on Raphael's Monument I mourn,
Or wait inspiring Dreams at Maro's Urn:

NOTES.

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VER. 13. Sister-Arts] To the poets that practised and understood painting, the names of Dante, of Flatman, of Butler, of Dyer, may be added that of our author; a portrait of whose painting is in the poffeffion of Lord Mansfield: a head of Betterton.

WARTON.

There is also another portrait by Pope, in the poffeffion of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, at Arundel castle. VER. 27. On Raphael's monument] Let me here add Sir Joshua Reynold's fine characters of Raphael and Michael Angelo :