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The Works of William Mason

... In Four Volumes
Mason, William (1725-1797)

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THE ART OF PAINTING, OF CHARLES ALPHONSE DU FRESNOY;

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This artless elegance, this native fire
Provok'd his tuneful heir to strike the lyre,
Who, proud his numbers with that prose to join,
Wove an illustrious wreath for Friendship's shrine.
 

Mr. Pope, in his Epistle to Jervas, has these lines:

Read these instructive leaves, in which conspire
Fresnoy's close art with Dryden's native fire.
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