NOTES. 93 



been clearer and more confonant with the above judicious ex- 

 plication of Sir Joftiua Reynolds, if it had run thus, 

 He who conceives them flrongeft paints them bed. 



M. 



NOTE XXXVI. VERSE 348. 

 Full late awoke the ceafelefs tear to Jhed 

 For perffid art. 



The later French Editor, who has modernized the ftyle of 

 Du Piles tranflation, fays here, that " he has taken the liberty 

 tofoftenthis pafiage, and has \xvnS&\&&Nil fupereft, by prefqut 

 rien y inftead of Du Piles verfion-, // ne nous a rien refte de leur 

 Peinture, being authorized to make this change by the late 

 difcoveries of antient painting at Herculaneum $'* but I fcarce 

 think that, by thefe difcoveries, we have retrieved any thing 

 of antient colouring* which is the matter here in cpeftion, 

 therefore I have given my tranflation that turn. M. 



NOTE XXXVII. VERSE 350. 

 For thofe celejlial hues 



Which Zeuxis, aided by the Attic Mufe, 

 Gave to the wondering eyt 



From the various antient Paintings, which have come down 

 to us, we may form a judgment with tolerable accuracy of 

 the excellencies and the defects of the art amongft the antients. 



There can be no doubt, but that the fame correctnefs of 

 defign was required from the Painter as from the Sculptor ^ 

 and if the fame good fortune had happened to us in regard to 

 their Paintings, to poffefs what the Antients themfelves 

 efteemed their mailer-pieces, which is the cafe in Sculpture, 

 I have no doubt but we fliould find their figures as correctly 

 drawn astheLaocoon, andprobably coloured likeTitian. What 

 difpofes me to think higher of their colouring than any re- 



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