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they were probably incapable of compofing a full piece for a 

 concert of different inftruments. R 



NOTE XXXVIII. VERSE 419. 

 Permit not two confpicuGus lights to fiine 

 With rival radiance in the fame defign. 



The fame right judgment which profcribes two equal lights, 

 forbids any two objects to be introduced of equal magnitude 

 or force, fo as to appear to be competitors for the attention of 

 the fpectator. This is common; but I do not think it quite fo 

 common, to extend the rule fo far as it ought to be extended : 

 even in colours, whether of the warm or cold kind, there mould 

 be one of each which mould be apparently principal and pre- 

 dominate over the reft. It muft be obferved, even in drapery, 

 that two folds of the fame drapery be not of equal magnitude. 



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NOTE XXXIX. VERSE 421. 

 But yield to one alone the power to blaze > 

 And fpread tti extenfive vigor of its rays. 

 Rem brant frequently practifed this rule to a degree of af- 

 fectation, by allowing but one mafs of light; but the Vene- 

 tian Painters, and Rubens, who extracted his principles from 

 their works, admitted many fubordinate lights. 



The fame rules, which have been given in regard to the 

 regulation of groups of figures, muft be obferved in regard to 

 the grouping of lights, that there (hall be a fuperiority of one 

 over the reft, that they mall be feparated, and varied in their 

 fhapes, and that there mould be at leaft three lights; the 

 fecondary lights ought, for the fake of harmony and union, 

 to be of nearly equal brightnefs, though not of equal magni- 

 tude with the principal. 



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