among the Ancients. 5^5 



elegant defcriptiotij on which fome of Mr. Galnf- 

 borough's paintings are the beft comment. But 

 it was Ariftides the Theban* who principally- 

 excelled in this fublime part of painting: qui 

 primus omniuni animum pinxit etfenfus hominis exprejif, 

 qua vacant graci ethe ; item perturbationes. Durior 

 paulo in coloribus. Hujus pi£lura eji oppido capto ad 

 tnatris, morientis e vulnere., mammam adrepens infans r 

 intelligiturque /entire matrem et timere ne emortuo lacie 

 fanguinem lambat.-f We fhall not eafily find a 

 produdlion of modern art, fuperior to this. The 

 fame Ariftides J painted alfo " a fick perfon, a 

 ** performance that received boundlefs commen- 

 *' dation. And fo much was he admired in this 

 " department of the art, that king Attalus is faid 

 " to have purchafed one of his piftures at the 

 " price of one hundred talents. " It is evident 

 that the value of this painting muft have depended 

 on exquifite expreflion. 



* Ibid. 



f This Is not very diffimilar to a beautiful thought in 

 Dr. Langhorne's Country Juftice. 



Cold on Canadia's hills or Minden's plain, 

 Peihaps that mother mourn'd her foldier flain : 

 Bent o'er her babe her eyes diflblved in dew — 

 The big drops mingling with the milk he drew 

 Gave the fad prefage of his future years. 

 The child of mifery baptized in tears. 



X Wm. u6i /up. Pinxit et agrum fine fine laudatum, ^d 

 in arte tavtum njaluit ut Aitalui rex unam tabulam ejus centum 

 talentis emijfe traJitur. 



Indeed, 



