XXIV.
Bright painting's living forms shall rise;
And wrapt in Ugolino's woe[A],
Shall Reynolds wake unbidden sighs;
And Romney's graceful pencil flow,
That Nature's look benign pourtrays[B],
When to her infant Shakspeare's gaze
The partial nymph "unveil'd her awful face,"
And bade his "colours clear" her features trace.
[A] "Ugolino's woe"—a celebrated picture by Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS, taken
from DANTE.
[B] "Nature's look benign pourtrays"—a subject Mr. ROMNEY has taken
from GRAY'S Progress of Poesy.