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Show [ 88 ] Or with fair HoPE the brightening fcenes improve, And cheer the dreary wafl:es at Sydney-cove ; Or bid Mortality rejoice and mourn O'er the fine forms on PoRTLAND's myfl:ic urn.- 320 '' Here, by fall'n columns and disjoin' d arcades, On mouldering ftones, beneath deciduous iliades, Sits I-I UMANKIND in hieroglyphic fl:ate, Serious, and pondering on their changeful Rate; While with•inverted torch, and fwi1nming eyes, Sinks the fair fhade of MoRTAL LIFE, and dies. There the pale GHosT through Death's wide portal bends His timid feet, the duiky fteep defcends; With fi11iles affuafive LovE DiviNE invites ' Guides on broad wing, with torch uplifted light~ ; 3 3 o IMMORTAL LIFE, her hand extending, courts T he lingering form, his tottering fiep fupports ; Portland's myjlic um. I. 3 l O. Sec adJit ional notes, N o. XXII. Leads on to Pluto's realn1s the dreary way., And gives hi1n trembling to Elyfi.an day. Beneath, in facred robes the PRIESTEss drefs'd, The coif clofe-hooded, and the fluttering vefl:, With pointing finger guides the initiate youth, Unweaves tl~e tnany-colour' d veil of Truth, Drives the profane fro1n Myfl:ery's bolted door, And Silence guards the Eleufinian lore.- " Whether, 0 Friend of Art! your gems derive Fine forms from Greece, and fable~ Gods revive ; Or bid from n1odern life the Portrait breathe, And bind round Honour's brow the laurel wreath ; 335 340 Buoyant fi1all fail, with Fame's hifl:oric page, 345 Each fair n1edallion o'er the wrecks of age; Fim forms from Greece. 1. 34-2. In real fl:on es, or in pafl:e or foft colou:ed glafs, ~any p1· eces of exqu11· r1: te workman f1l1.1. ip were produced by the antients. Ba. ffo-rehevos· of vafn ous fiz.es were made in coarfe brown earth of one colour; but of the Improved kJ~d 0 two or more colours, and of a true porcelain texture, none were made by t~le antients, nor attempted, 1 believe, by the moderns, before thofe of Mr. Wedgwood s manufactory. PART!. N |
