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the old maxim, " Contraria juxta fe pofita, magis elucefcunt." 

 Thus in the Scornful Lady, the Ufurer is fent to confront tht 

 Prodigal : Thus in my Tyrannic Love, the Atheift Maximin 

 is oppofed to the character of St. Catharine. 



I am now come, though with the omifiion of many like-- 

 nefles, to the third part of Painting, which is called' the CHRO- 

 MATIC or COLOURING. Expreffion, and all that belongs to 

 words, is that in a Poem which Colouring is in a- Picture. 

 The colours well chofen, in their proper places, together witH 

 the lights and (hadows which belong to them, lighten the de- 

 fign, and make it pleafing to the eye. The Words, the Ex- 

 preffions, the Tropes and Figures, the Verification, and all 

 the other elegancies of found, as cadences, turns of words 

 upon the thought, and: many other things, which are all parts 

 of expreffion, perform exactly the fame office both in Dramatic 

 and Epic Poetry. Our Author calls colouring, " lena fororis ;" 

 in plain English, the Bawd of her- Sifter,, the defign or draw- 

 ing ; (he clothes, me drefTes her up, me paints her, me makes 

 her appear more lovely than naturally ihe is, me procures 

 for the defign, and makes lovers for her; for the defign of 

 itfelf is only fo>many naked lines. Thus in Poetry, the Ex- 

 preffion is that which charms the reader, and beautifies the 

 Defign, which is only the outlines of the fables. It is true, 

 the defign muft of itfelf be good; if it be vicious, or, in one 

 word, unpleafing, the coft of colouring is thrown away upon 

 it. It is an ugly woman in a rich habit, fet out with jewels ; 

 nothing can become her. But granting the defign to be mode- 

 rately good, it is like an excellent complexion with indifferent 

 features 5 the white and red well mingled on the face, make 

 what was before but pafiable,. appear beautiful. " Operum 

 Colores" is the very word which Horace ufes to fignify Words 



and, 



