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Virtuoso
That think unjustly to deny
A Traveller his Right to Ly,
Or Virtuosos Free Command
Things how they please to understand.
A Traveller his Right to Ly,
Or Virtuosos Free Command
Things how they please to understand.
As silly as b' a weathercock
To think to finde out what's a Clock.
To think to finde out what's a Clock.
As Antient Statues without Arms or Noses
Are Reverencd for their Age by virtuosos.
Are Reverencd for their Age by virtuosos.
Whence some believe Ægyptian Hieroglyphyques
Are all that's left of Natural Specifiques;
When evry Letter Signifyd the Nature
Of Beasts, and Birds, and Fishes in the water;
Which made the Antients Celebrate an Owl
For th' only Proper Philosophique Foul.
Are all that's left of Natural Specifiques;
When evry Letter Signifyd the Nature
Of Beasts, and Birds, and Fishes in the water;
Which made the Antients Celebrate an Owl
For th' only Proper Philosophique Foul.
Of time take measure with a string
And make it measure any thing.
And make it measure any thing.
As modern Painters take it for a Glory
To steal a Posture, or a Limb in Story,
And use it as an Argument they Come
Nearest to some Old Greek they stele it from.
To steal a Posture, or a Limb in Story,
And use it as an Argument they Come
Nearest to some Old Greek they stele it from.
Who, by the smutty Coullers or the Fair,
Can only Judge how New or old they are;
Whence some, by being smokd like hams of Bacon,
For Antique Masters Hands have been mistaken
By those who have no Notion of the lines,
The only Rule to Judge of tru Designes.
Can only Judge how New or old they are;
Whence some, by being smokd like hams of Bacon,
For Antique Masters Hands have been mistaken
By those who have no Notion of the lines,
The only Rule to Judge of tru Designes.
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