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 The fculptur'd forms which fome proud Circus 



grace, 



In Parian Marble or Corinthian Brafe, 430; 



Illumin'd. thus, give to the gazing eye y . 

 TlV exprefiive head in radiant Majefty,. 

 While to each lower limb the fainter ray 

 Lends only light to mark, but not difplay : 

 So let thy pencil fling its beams around, 435 



Nor e'er with darker fhades their force confound, 

 For fhades too dark diflever'd fhapes will give, 

 And fink the parts their foftnefs would relieve ; 

 Then only well reliev'd, when like a veil" 

 Round the full lights the wandring fhadows fteal ; 

 Then only juftly ipread, when to the fight 441 

 A breadth of fhade purfues a breadth of light. 



Majus tit in ftatuis, per compita ftantibus urbis, 



Lumen habent partes fuperas, minus inferiores; 



Idem erit in tabulis; majofque nee umbra, vel ater 



Membra figurarum intrabit color, atqu'e fecabit : 



Corpora fed circum umbra cavis latitabit oberrans ; ^25 



Atque ita qua:retur lux opportuna figuris, 



Ut late infufum lumen lata umbra iequatur* 



