THE ART OF PAINTING. TRUE Poetry the Painter's power displays ; Alternate change their office and their name; 5 The tuneful page with speaking picture charm. DE ARTE GRAPHICA. Ur Pictura Poesis erit; similisque Poesi 10 Non eadem Pictorum operam studiumq; merentur: 1 From you, blest Pair! Religion deigns to claim Her sacred honours; at her awful name 16 High o'er the stars you take your soaring flight, 20 Then round this globe on joint pursuit ye stray, Time's ample annals studiously survey; And from the eddies of Oblivion's stream Propitious snatch each memorable theme. Thus to each form, in heaven, and earth, and sea, That wins with grace, or awes with dignity, Ambæ quippe sacros ad rcligionis honores Sydercos superant ignes, aulamque tonantis Ingressæ, Divum aspectu, alloquioque fruuntur; Oraque magna Deûm, et dicta observata reportant, Coelestemque suorum operum mortalibus ignem. Inde hunc Orbem studiis coëuntibus errant, per Carpentes quæ digna sui, revolutaque lustrant, Tempora, quærendis consortibus argumentis. Denique quæcunq; in cœlo, terrâque, marique Longius in tempus durare, ut pulchra merentur, 25 19 15 To each exalted deed, which dares to claim That meed ye grant. He lives, he breathes, he braves the frown of Such powers, such praises, heaven-born Pair, belong To magick colouring, and creative song. But here I pause, nor ask Pieria's train, Nor Phoebus self to elevate the strain: 35 Vain is the flow'ry verse, when reasoning sage And sober precept fill the studied page; 20 Nobilitate sua, claroque insignia casu, Majus ut eloquium numeris, aut gratia fandi Dogmaticis illustret opus rationibus horrens : 2.5 |