...of Painting' This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This, from no venal or ungrateful muse. Whether thy hand strike out some free design, Where...dawns at every line ; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour 'd mass, And from the canvas call the mimic face : Read these instructive leaves, in which conspire...

...free design, Where Life awakes, and dawns at every line ; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour 'd mass, And from the canvas call the mimic face : Read these instructive leaves, in which conspire Fresnoy's close art, and Dryden's native fire : And reading wish, like theirs our...

...,!Mr. Ttryden THIS verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This, from no venal or ungrateful Muse. Whether thy hand strike out some free design, Where life awakes, and dawns at ev'ry line ; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, And from the canvas call the mimic face...

...published 1716] This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This, from no venal or ungrateful Muse. Whether thy hand strike out some free design, Where life awakes, and dawns at ev'ry line; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, 5 And from the canvas call the mimic face:...

...occurs in his epistle to Jarvis, who was a painter in the same proportion that Granville was a poet: — Whether thy hand strike out some free design, Where life awakes, and dawns at every line, — n And, again, of Granville, in the same epistle, alluding to his own poems, And these be sung,...

...this was the fate of a man of whom Pope wrote — Whether thy hand strike out some fresh design, When life awakes and dawns at every line, Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, And from the canvas call the mimic face ; and again — Beauty, frail flower that every...