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Art of Painting

Notes

A Table of the Rules contained in the foregoing Poem

The Sentiments of M. du Fresnoy on the Works of the prin-

cipal and best Painters of 1600 and 1700

157

Mr. Dryden's Preface, with a Parallel between Poetry and

Painting

169

Mr. Pope's Epistle to Mr. Jervas

219

Chronological List of Painters

225

The preceding List arranged in Alphabetical Order

Index to the Art of Painting

259

275

IV. On the Causes of the present imperfect Alliance between

Music and Poetry

395

ERRATA.

Page 26, line 35 latin, for capace read capacem. 34, Rule IX. at the bottom of the page, for drapery of read drapery to the head.

35, line 132 latin, after figuræ dele?

103, 15, for Frati read Frari.

234,
236,

8, for gentleness read gentilness.
1, ditto.

267, after Nicolo del Pomerancio, 240, instead of 3 read 8.
277, end of the first line of G, for an read any.

288, line 24, after genius, instead of who read which.

371,

7, after omitted dele By.

380, last line but one, instead of a necessary read as necessary.

EPISTLE

ΤΟ

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.

WHEN Dryden, worn with sickness, bow'd with years,

Was doom'd (my Friend, let pity warm thy tears,)

The galling pang of penury to feel,

For ill-placed loyalty, and courtly zeal,

To see that laurel which his brows o'erspread,
Transplanted droop on Shadwell's barren head,
The Bard oppress'd, yet not subdued by fate,
For
very bread descended to translate:
And he, whose fancy, copious as his phrase,
Could light at will expression's brightest blaze,
On Fresnoy's lay employ'd his studious hour;
But niggard there of that melodious power,
His pen in haste the hireling task to close
Transform'd the studied strain to careless prose,
Which, fondly lending faith to French pretence,
Mistook its meaning, or obscur'd its sense.

Yet still he pleas'd; for Dryden still must please, Whether with artless elegance and ease