PAINTING.
The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring
Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.
Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan. LORD BYRON.
Hard features every bungler can command:
To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
To Mr. Lee, on his Alexander. J. DRYDEN.
A flattering painter, who made it his care
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Retaliation. O. GOLDSMITH.
Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
Horace, Bk. II. Epistle I. A. POPE.
I will say of it,
It tutors nature: artificial strife
Lives in these touches, livelier than life.
Timon of Athens, Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
With hue like that when some great painter dips
His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
The Revolt of Islam. P.B. SHELLEY.