NOTES. 83 



'* I own this paffage is not quite clear, yet it was not my 



"fault that the Author did not make it more intelligible; 



" but he was fo much offended with ;fome perfons who knew 



" nothing of Painting in general, fave only the part of Per- 



" fpedtive, in which they made the whole art of it to confifr, 



" that he would never be perfuaded to recal the expreflion, 



" though I fully convinced him, that every thing thefe people 



" faid was not of the leaft confequence." Du Piles feems to 



tell this tale (fo little to the credit of his friend's judgment) 



merely to make hirnfelf of confequence; for my own part, I 



can hardly be perfuaded that a perfon who has tranflated a 



work fo inaccurately as Du Piles has done this, " did it under 



" the Author's own eye, and corrected it till the verfion was 



*' intirely to his own mind," which, in his preface, he atferts 



ivas the cafe. M. 



NOTE XXII. VERSE 174. 

 Yet to each fep'rate form adapt with care. 

 Such limbs, fuch robes, fuch attitude and air, 



As beft befit the head 



As it is neceflary, for the fake of variety, that figures not 

 only of different ages, but of different forms and characters be 

 introduced in a work where many figures are required, care 

 mufr. be taken that thofe different characters have a certain 

 confonance of parts amongft themfelves, fuch as is generally 

 found in nature; a fat face, for inftance, is ufually accompa- 

 nied with a proportional degree of corpulency of body ; an 

 aquiline nofe for the moil part belongs to a thin countenance, 

 with a body and limbs correfponding to it; but thofe are 

 obfervations which muft occuf to every body. 



Yet there are others that are not fo obvious, and thofe who 

 have turned their thoughts this way, may form a probable 



L 2 conjecture 



