And skill'd remoter distances to keep, * In silver clouds in ether's blue domain, Or the clear mirrour of the wat❜ry plain, If chance some solid substance claim a place, 410 Jam signata minùs confusa coloribus aufert: y Densa figurarum solidis quæ corpora formis Subdita sunt tactu, non translucent, sed opaca 295 300 x XXXII. Dense and op- y XXXII. Corpora densa aque bodies with translucent et opaca translucentibus. Rough let it swell and boldly meet the sight, Mark'd with peculiar strength of shade and light; There blend each earthly tint of heaviest sort, 415 sky, Light and pellucid from that substance fly. z Permit not two conspicuous lights to shine With rival radiance in the same design; But yield to one alone the power to blaze 420 In translucendi spatio ut super aëra, nubes, Ut distincta magis firmo cum lumine et umbra, • Non poterunt diversa locis duo lumina eâdem In tabulâ paria admitti, aut æqualia pingi : Z XXXIII. There must not be two equal Lights in the 310 a XXXIII. Non duo ex cœlo Lumina in tabulam æ There where the noblest figures are display'd; Flings vivid forth to light the distant West, In Parian marble or Corinthian brass, Illumin'd thus, give to the gazing eye Th' expressive head in radiant Majesty, 430 Majus at in mediam lumen cadet usque tabellam Majus ut in statuis, per compita stantibus urbis, 315 320 So let thy pencil fling its beams around, 435 Nor e'er with darker shades their force con found. For shades too dark, dissever'd shapes will give, steal; 440 Then only justly spread, when to the sight clear May bear an object back, or bring it near; 445 Corpora sed circum umbra cavis latitabit oberrans; 325 Ut latè infusum lumen lata umbra sequatur. remotum : 330 b XXXIV. Of White and e XXXIV. Album et Ni с Aided by black it to the front aspires, That aid withdrawn it distantly retires; Still calls each object nearer to the view. d 450 " Whate'er we spy thro' colour'd light or air, A stain congenial on their surface bear, But where on both alike one equal light 455 Cum nigro antevenit propiùs; fugit absq. remotum; Purum autem nigrum antrorsum venit usque propinquum. Lux fucata suo tingit miscetque colore Corpora, sicque suo, per quem lux funditur, aër. f Corpora juncta simul, circumfusosque colores 335 Excipiunt, propriumque aliis radiosa reflectunt. 8 Pluribus in solidis liquidâ sub luce propinquis, Participes, mixtosque simul decet esse colores. Hanc norman Veneti pictores ritè sequuti, |