From a Picture by Sir Godfrey Knettert. in the Marquis of Buckingham's Collection at Stowe: Published by Cadell & Davies, Strand, and the other Proprietors May 1.1807. A Face untaught to feign; a judging Eye, Nor wish to lose a Foe these Virtues raise 15 I SHALL add a dialogue by Mr. Pope, in verfe, that is genuine : POPE. "Since my old friend is grown fo great, As to be Minister of State, I'm told, but 'tis not true I hope, CRAGGS. "Alas! if I am fuch a creature, To grow the worfe for growing greater; WARTON. EPISTLE ΤΟ MR. JERVAS, WITH MR. DRYDEN's TRANSLATION OF FRESNOY'S THIS Verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse Whether thy hand ftrike out fome free defign, Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, NOTES. 5 And Epifle to Mr. Jervas] This Epiftle and the two following were written fome years before the rest, and originally printed in 1717. POPE. Jervas owed much more of his reputation to this Epiftle than to his skill as a painter. "He was defective," fays Mr. Walpole, "in drawing, colouring, and compofition; his pictures are a light, flimzy kind of fan-painting, as large as the life; his vanity was exceffive." The reafon why Lady Bridgewater's name is so frequently repeated in this Epiftle, is, becaufe Jervas affected to be violently in love with her. As fhe was fitting to him one day, he ran over the beauties of her face with rapture; but added, “I cannot help telling your Ladyship you have not an handsome ear.” "No! Pray, Mr. Jervas, what is a handfome ear?" He turned afide his сар, and fhewed his own! WARTON, And reading wish, like theirs, our fate and fame, 15 Smit with the love of Sifter-Arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame; Like friendly colours found them both unite, And each from each contract new ftrength and light, How oft' in pleafing tasks we wear the day, While fummer-funs roll unperceiv'd away ? How oft our flowly-growing works impart, While Images reflect from art to art? How oft review; each finding like a friend Something to blame, and fomething to commend? What flatt'ring scenes our wand'ring fancy wrought, Rome's pompous glories rifing to our thought! Together o'er the Alps methinks we fly, With thee, on Raphael's Monument I mourn, Fir'd with Ideas of fair Italy. Or wait infpiring Dreams at Maro's Urn: 20 25 NOTES. With VER. 13. Sifter-Arts] To the poets that practifed and underftood painting, the names of Dante, of Flatman, of Butler, of Dyer, may be added that of our author; a portrait of whofe painting is in the poffeffion of Lord Mansfield: a head of Betterton. WARTON. There is also another portrait by Pope, in the poffeffion of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, at Arundel caftle. VER. 27. On Raphael's monument] Let me here add Sir Joshua Reynold's fine characters of Raphael and Michael Angelo: |