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From part to part alternately convey: 

 The harmonizing gloom, the darting ray 

 With tones fo j-uft, in ,fuch gradation thrown, 54,5 

 Adopting Nature owns the work her own. 



Say, is the piece thy Hand prepares to trace 

 Qrdain'd for nearer fight r or narrow fpace ? 

 Paint it of foft and amicable hue:. 

 But, if predeftin'd to remoter view, 550 



Thy ftrong unequal varied colors blend ; 

 And ample fpace to ample figures lend 

 Where to broad lights the circumambient fhade 

 In liquid play by labor juft is laid ^ 



Lir. 



The Place of 

 the Pitfure; 



LIU: 



Large Lights.! 



Confimiles partes, cum luminis atque coloris- 393 



Compofitis, juftifque tonis ; tune parta labore 

 Si facili & vegeto micat ardens, viva videtutv 



Vifa loco angpfto tenere pingantmy amico 

 Junda colore, graduque j procul qua? pi&a, feroci 

 S'mt & inaequali variata colore, tonoque. 400 



Grandia figna volunt fpatia ampla, ferofque colores.. 

 JLumina lata> unctas iimul undique copulet umbras- 



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LIT. 



Locus Tabu-- 



Lin. 



Lumina lata. 



