purpose, and Mr. Ray gives us no other. I hold myself, therefore, excusable for leaving the line untranslated.

NOTE XVII. VERSE 130.

M.

Till all complete the gradual wonder shone,
And vanquish'd Nature own'd herself outdone.

In strict propriey, the Grecian Statues only excel nature by bringing together such an assemblage of beautiful parts as Nature was never known to bestow on one object :

For earth-born graces sparingly impart

The symmetry supreme of perfect art. v. 68. It must be remembered, that the component parts of the inost perfect Statue never can excel nature, that we can form no idea of beauty beyond her works: we can only make this rare assemblage; an assemblage so rare, that if we are to give the name of Monster to what is uncommon, we might, in the words of the Duke of Buckingham, call it A faultless Monster which the world ne'er saw. R,

NOTE XVIII. VERSE 144.

Learn then from Greece, ye youths, Proportion's law, Inform'd by her, each just position draw.

Du Piles has, in his note on this passage, given the measures of a human body, as taken by Fresnoy from the statues of the ancients, which are here transcribed:

"The Ancients have commonly allowed eight heads to their figures, though some of them have but seven; but we ordinarily divide the figures into ten faces*; that is to say, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, in the following manner:

"From the crown of the head to the forehead is the third part of a face.

"The face begins at the root of the lowest hairs which are upon the forehead, and ends at the bottom of the chin.

"The face is divided into three proportionable parts; the first contains the forehead, the second the nose, and the third the mouth

*This depends on the age and quality of the persons. The Apollo and Venus of Medicis have more than ten faces.

R.

and the chin; from the chin to the pit betwixt the collar-bones are two lengths of a nose.

"From the pit betwixt the collar-bones to the bottom of the breast, one face.

"From the bottom of the breasts to the navel, one face †.

"From the navel to the genitories, one facet.

"From the genitories to the upper part of the knee, two faces.

"The knee contains half a face.

"From the lower part of the knee to the ankle, two faces.

"From the ankle to the sole of the foot, hálf a face.

"A man, when his arms are stretched out, is, from the longest finger of his right hand to the longest of his left, as broad as he is long.

"From one side of the breasts to the other, two faces.

+ The Apollo has a nose more.

R.

The Apollo has half a nose more; and the upper half. of the Venus de Medicis is to the lower part of the belly, and not to the privy-parts.

R.

"The bone of the arm, called Humerus, is the length of two faces from the shoulder to the elbow.

"From the end of the elbow to the root of the little finger, the bone called Cubitus, with part of the hand, contains two faces. 66 From the box of the shoulder-blade to the pit betwixt the collar-bones, one face. If you would be satisfied in the measure of breadth, from the extremity of one finger to the other, so that this breadth should be equal to the length of the body, you must observe, that the boxes of the elbows with the humerus, and of the humerus with the shoulder blade, bear the proportion of half a face when the arms are stretched out. "The sole of the foot is the sixth part of the figure.

"The hand is the length of à face. "The thumb contains a nose.

"The inside of the arm, from the place where the muscle disappears, which makes the breast, (called the Pectoral muscle,) to the middle of the arm, four noses.

"From the middle of the arm to the beginning of the head, five noses.

The longest toe is a nose long.

"The two utmost parts of the teats, and the pit betwixt the collar-bones of a woman, make an equilateral triangle.

"For the breadth of the limbs, no precise measures can be given, because the measures themselves are changeable, according to the quality of the persons, and according to the movement of the muscles." Du Piles.

The measures of the ancient statues, by Audran, appear to be the most useful, as they are accompanied with the outline of the figures which are most distinguished for

correctness.

NOTE XIX. VERSE 150.

But chief from her that flowing outline take,—

R.

The French editor,* who republished this poem in the year 1753, (eighty-five years later than the first edition of Du Piles,) remarks here, that Noël Coypel, (called Coy

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* He calls himself, in the Paris edition, intitled, Ecole d'Uranie," Le Sieur M. D. Q. The Abbe De Marsy's Poem, intitled, Pictura, is annexed to Du Fresnoy's, in that edition.

M.