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Pectoraque, artificum laudatis proxima sigtris.* 

 From all that has hitherto been said, the 

 opinions of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Mr* 

 Burke, seem to differ very much on the 

 subject of beauty ; yet, I believe, the dif- 

 ference is more in the manner in which 

 they viewed and treated the subject, than 

 in the judgment, which, according to their 

 own principles, they would have given of 

 any work, either of nature or of art. The 



# As the art of sculpture, if even invented in the time of 

 Homer, was then in its infancy, he has not made any com- 

 parison between his heroes and statues : but, what is curi- 

 ous enough, in order to give an idea of the perfect form of 

 the king of men, he has selected different parts even of the: 

 gods — 



*Aps» t» fount, crip to* & n.»<THclxwn. 



One might almost imagine, that Shakspeare had tnoUght 

 of this passage in his description of Hamlet's father : only 

 that he had chosen to take the eyes from Jupiter, and trans* 

 ftr tlicm to the god of war. 



** Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself ; 

 01 An eye like Mars to threaten or command ; 

 <c A station like the herald Mercury, 

 " New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill '' 



