Note 737 — BOOK II.
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A popular writer paid the following eloquent tribute to these masterly specimens of professional art.
Yet mark each willing Muse, where Boydell draws, And calls the sister pow'rs in Shakspeare's cause! By art controll'd the fire of Reynolds breaks, And nature's pathos in her Northcote speaks; The Grecian forms in Hamilton combine, Parrhasian grace and Zeuxis' softest line, There Barry's learning meets with Romney's strength, And Smirke portrays Thalia at full length. Lo! Fuseli (in whose tempestuous soul The unnavigable tides of genius roll,) Depicts the sulph'rous fire, the smould'ring light, The bridge chaotic o'er the abyss of night, With each accursed form and mystic spell, And singly "bears up all the fame of hell!"
Pursuits of Literature.