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NOTE XVII. VERSE 130. 

 ''Till all compleat the gradual wonder foont, 

 And vanqui/h'd Nature owrid herfelf outdone. 

 In drift propriety, the Grecian Statues only excel Nature 

 by bringing together fuch an afiemblage of beautiful parts as 

 Nature was never known to beilow on one object : 

 For earth-born graces fparingly impart 

 The fymmetry fupreme of perfect art. 'ver. 68. 

 It mufl be remembered, that the component parts of the 

 moft perfect Statue never can excel Nature.; that we can form 

 no idea of Beauty beyond her .works : we can only onake this 

 rare affemblage ; and it is fo rare, that if we are to give the 

 name of Monfler to what is uncommon, we might, in the 

 words of the Duke of Buckingham, call it 



A faultlefs Monfler which the world ne'^er faw. R. 



NOTE XVIII. TERSE 144. 

 Learn then from Greece, -ye youths, Proportions law, 

 Inform d by her, each juft pofition draw. 

 Du Piles has, in his note -on this pafTage, given the mea- 

 fures of a human body, as taken by Frefnoy from the flatues 

 of the antienta, >which are here tranfcribed. 



" The Antients have commonly allowed eight heads to their 

 Figures, though feme of them have but feven; but we ordi T 

 nacily divide the figures into ten faces * -, that is to fay, from 

 the crown of the head to the fole of the foot, in the following 

 manner: 



*' From the crown of the head to the forehead is the third 

 part of a face. 



" The face begins at the root of the lowed hairs which 

 are upon the forehead, and ends at the bottom of the chin. 



" The 



This depends on the age and quality of the.perfons. The Apollo and Venus of 

 Medicis have more than ten faces. 



