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lavater’s 
recefTes of his bread, in order to fee the paffions, 
and give life to his reprelentation, without mifling 
a fingle (hade that chara£terizes the original, juft as 
much as^he is diftinguiftied by the features of his 
face. 
His progrefs in this branch of the imitative arts 
will be favoured by a fruitful imagination, (kill in 
drawing, with a juft diftribution and force of colour- 
ing. Thus he will obtain the lively fpark that Pro- 
metheus ftole from Heaven, to animate brittle clay, 
the boafted work of his hands. It is, then, by the 
particular excellence of affe6ting and fpeaking 
figures, that Painting holds a rank among the 
fciences as the Sifter of Mufic and Poetry. 
ESSAY 
