Admire the proud productions of their skill, plore, 731 See RAFFAELLE there his forms celestial trace, Unrivall❜d Sovereign of the realms of Grace: See ANGELO, with energy divine, 735 Seize on the summit of correct design: 740 Romani, Veneti, Parmenses, atque Bononi, Partibus in cunctis pedetentim, atque ordine recto, Ut monitum suprà est, vos expendisse juvabit. Hos apud invenit Raphael miracula summo Juus à puero musarum eductus in antris, 521 535 1 His triumphs more than mortal pomp adorns, With more than mortal rage his battle burns; His Heroes, happy heirs of fav'ring fame, 745 More from his art than from their actions claim. Bright, beyond all the rest, CORREGGIO flings His ample lights, and round them gently brings The mingling shade. In all his works we view Grandeur of style, and chastity of hue, 759 Yet higher still great TITIAN dar'd to soar, He reach'd the loftiest heights of colouring's power; His friendly tints in happiest mixture flow, Quæque coronatis complevit bella triumphis 755 532 Clarior ante alios Corregius extitit, ampla Luce superfusa, circum coëuntibus umbris, Pingendique modo grandi, et tractando colore Corpora. Amicitiamque, gradusque, dolosque co Hence deem'd divine, the world his merit own'd, With riches, loaded, and with honours crown'd, From all their charms combin'd, with happy toil, Did ANNIBAL compose his wond'rous style: 760 O'er the fair fraud so close a veil is thrown, becomes his own. That every borrow'd grace If then to praise like theirs your souls aspire, Catch from their works a portion of their fire; Revolve their labours all, for all will teach,— Their finish'd picture, and their slightest sketch. 766 Yet more than these to Meditation's eyes force; 770 Divus sit dictus, magnis et honoribus auctus, Fortunæque bonis : Quos sedulus Hannibal omnes 535 In propriam mentem, atque modum mirâ arte coëgit h Plurimus inde labor tabulas imitando juvabit Egregias, operumque typos; sed plura docebit Natura ante oculos præsens; nam firmat et auget LXXI. Nature and Ex perience perfect Art. LXXI. Natura et Ex perientia Artem perficiunt. Her precepts, best of teachers! give the powers, Whence art, by practice to perfection soars. These useful rules from time and chance to save, In Latian strains, the studious FRESNOY gave: On Tiber's peaceful banks the Poet lay, 775 What time the pride of Bourbon urg'd his way, Vim genii, ex illâque artem experientia complet. $40 Multa supersileo que commentaria dicent. quæ 545 Hæc ego, dum memoror subitura volubilis ævi. Cuncta vices, variisque olim peritura ruinis, Pauca sophismata sum graphica immortalibus ausus Credere pieriis, Romæ meditatus: ad Alpes, Dum super insanas moles, inimicaque castra Borbonidum decus et vindex Lodoicus avorum, Fulminat ardenti dextrâ, patriæque resurgens Gallicus Alcides premit Hispani ora leonis. But mark the Proteus-policy of state: Now, while his courtly numbers I translate, 785 790 The foes are friends, in social league they dare Long by that race adorn'd, thy dread Paladium shine. THE END. |