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For tho' our cafual glance may fometimes meet 70 

 With charms thatfcrike the foul, and feem compleat. 



Yet if thofe charms too clofely we define, 



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Content to copy nature line for line, 

 Our end is loft. Not fuch the Matter's care, 

 Curious he culls the perfect from the fair ; 75 

 Judge of his art, thro' beauty's realm he flies,, 

 Selects, combines, improves, diverfifies ; 

 With nimble ftep purfues the fleeting throng, 

 And clafps each Venus as fhe glides along. 



Yet fome there are who indifcreetly ftray, 80 O f Theory 



and Practice. 



Where purblind Practice only points the way, 

 Who ev'ry theoretic truth difdain, 

 And blunder on mechanically vain* 



Nam quamcumque modo fervili hand fufficit ipfarn 

 Naturam exprimere ad vivum ; fed ut arbiter artis, 50 



Seliget ex ilia tanturo pulcherrima Pidor. 

 Quodque minus pulchrum, aut mendofum, corriget ipfe 

 Marte luo, formae Veneres captando fugaces. 



Utque manus grandi nil nomine pra&ica dignum D " , 



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Ailequitur, primum arcanas quam dehcit artis 55 



Lumen, & in praeceps abitUFa ut caeca vagaturj 



