corner of this doleful cave (with a toad crawling through the ribs); but the addition of fiends, fwelling toads, &c. muft be introduced, ad libitum, by fome fecond Brueghel.

Page 502 *.

THE lines in this page, defcribing the powers of harmony, may produce from fome artist of eminence, a Fancy piece worthy of them; and the ideas which will arife in the painter's imagination, will be the furest guide to beauty, and will shew the futility of here offering more hints than briefly faying-that a kind of St. Cecilia figure may be introduced, playing on a lute-whofe celeftial countenance may be expreffive of that fublime harmony, which, we may prefume, the perufal of Dryden's Ode would give birth to; or the listening to Handen's strains would raise in the heart of a Sheridan.

THE monster Aaron, that damned Moor, may be in the back-ground, as liftening to her; and (with his

cloudy melancholy

And fleece of woolly hair, that now uncurls

Even

them there to perifh. The danger to which Mr. Hill and his friends were expofed, inftantly alarmed them; they had scarce read the fhocking tale, when looking up, they beheld their inhuman guide, affifted by two others whom, they had feen near the fpot, clofing the entrance into the vault. They were now reduced to the utmost diftrefs, however they drew their fwords, and were determined to make fome desperate effort to rescue themselves from a scene so truly dreadful. With this refolution, they were groping about at random in the dark, when they were startled at the groans of fome one seemingly in the agonies of death; they attended to the dismal found, and at length, by means of a glimmering light from the top of the catacomb, they faw a man jutt murdered; and a little beyond, they difcovered his inhuman murderers, flying with the utmost precipitation; they purfued them immediately, and though they were not able to come up with them, they however had the good fortune to reach the opening through which these wretches efcaped out of the cavern, before they had time to roll the ftone on the top of it. Thus Mr. Hill and his friends were by a miracle faved."

[Journal from Bafora to Bagdad. }

* A VERY interesting sketch of a head, might be taken from what Marcus fays of the boy, in page 315-but as this scene could not have been written by Shakespeare, it will be passed over.

Even as an adder, when the doth unrolf

To do fome fatal execution)

as at the moment of his dark vindictive features, being foftened and relenting from his dire purpose, by the sweet sounds of mufic-his knife dropping from his hand

He would have dropp'd his knife, and fell asleep

As Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet. †

His dress may be taken from Hanmer's edition.

Page 545.

I am Revenge; fent from the infernal kingdom,
To cafe the gnawing vulture of thy mind.

From these lines might be etched a wild Fancy head (in ftrange and fad habiliment), somewhat in the ftyle of Mortimer's head of Lear.

OR, fhould these lines not be chofen, another print of a fimilar kind might be taken from p. 490, representing the head of Aaron, as proclaiming the revenge and vengeance of his foul.

Page 556.

It would be disgusting to represent all the dead and mangled bodies on the stage; and had Titus been an interesting character, (which he cer

tainly

+

Scylla wept

And chid her barking waves into attention,
And fell Charibdis murmur'd foft applause.

MILTON.

tainly is not) an affecting painting might have been taken at the time his fon imprints his last kiss on his father's pale cold lips.

How then are we to introduce to advantage, the beautiful lines which Lucius addreffes to the Boy-(and which, by the by, are not introduced in Dod's Beauties of Shakespeare.)—Are we to draw Lucius as speaking them to the Boy; whose innocent and mildly affected look may be glancing, or fixed on his fond grandfire.—Or must we have a Fancy piece of Age and Youth, representing a fond, interefting, and venerable old man, in the moment described in these lines:

If the former is preferred, it would be better to omit Marcus and the other characters.

SHOULD the latter be chofen-nature alone muft dictate to a painter, the fmiling expreffion of each countenance. A Fancy-piece of venerable age, will be more interesting than the mangled trunk of Titus: + Some may choose to give to the Boy, a look different from fmiling; and fomewhat fimilar to that in Mr. Bunbury's Sad Story. And a Fancy drefs may be chosen by fome, like that in Guercino's Woman begging water, in the collection of Drawings by Rogers; and in the fame ftile of engraving.

*WHAT a picture would Sir Joshua produce from this fcene!

Can we poffibly fuppofe Shakespeare to have written the two laft lines which the boy fpeaks?

Tail-piece.

Tail-piece.

THE touches of Shakespeare being difcernible in the Clown; it will form a good print for this department, to have a half length etching of him, as faying in page 532-Oh! the gibbet-maker? —and it might be in the fame ftyle of etching as Mr. Bunbury's Courier Anglois, or Ryland's print from Vandyck in the collection of drawings by Rogers. The expreffion of the face, must be left to each one's humorous imagination.*

A LIST of fuch Prints taken from this play, as I have feen. Thofe I have not feen, are printed

in Italics.

1. Bell's firft and second edition.

2. Hanmer.

3. Theobald.

4. Rowe.

5. A cut by L. du Guernier, to an edit. in 8 vol. 8vo. printed for Tonfon, in 1735.

6. Pope's 12mo. edition

7. Lowndes.

8. Taylor's picturefque Beauties.

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CORIOLANUS.

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