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therefore called the Beautiful Form. Neither is there any 

 man of the prefent age equal in the ftrength, proportion, and 

 knitting of his limbs, to the Hercules of Farnefe, made by 

 Glycon ; or any woman who can juftly be compared with the 

 Medicean Venus of Ckomenes. And upon this account the 

 nobleft Poets and the beft Orators, when they deflred to cele- 

 brate any extraordinary beauty, are forced to have recourfe to 

 ftatues and pi&ures, and to draw their perfons and faces into 

 comparifon : Ovid, endeavouring to exprefs the beauty of 

 Cyllarus, the faireft of the Centaurs, celebrates him as next 

 in perfection to the moil admirable ftatues: 



Gratus in ore vigor, cervix, hurnerique, .manufque, 



Pectoraque, artificum laudatis proxima lignis. 

 A pleafing vigour his fair face exprefs'd ; 

 His neck, his hands* his {hculders, and his breaft, 

 Did next in gracefulnefs and beauty (land, 

 To breathing figures, of the Sculptor's hand. 

 In another place he fets Apelles above Venus ; 

 Si Venerem Cois nunquam pinxiiTet Apelles^ 

 Merfa fub asquoreis ilia lateret aquis. 



Thus varied. 



One birth to feas the Cyprian Goddefs ow'd, 

 A fecond birth the Painter's art beftow'd : 

 Lefs by the feas than by his pow'r was giv'n ; 

 They made her live, but he advanc'd to heav'n. 

 The Idea of this Beauty is indeed various, according to 

 the feveral forms which the Painter or Sculptor would defcribe: 

 As one in ftrength, another in magnanimity -, and fometimes it 

 confifts in chearfulnefs, and fometimes in delicacy, and is al- 

 ways diverfified by the fex and age. 



' The beauty of Jove is one, and that of Juno another: 

 Hercules and Cupid are perfect beauties, though of different 



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