The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (1.1787)

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in affectionate relatives at home, was by &
fatal di Item per numbered among the filent
dead : yet when I acquaint you his name was
Lazarus, your thoughts anticipate the joy-
ful occurence, whofe expressions I mean to
Inveftigate.

Let us previoufly recollect the Characters
neceflary to introduce in this compofition,
that we may more accurately adapt to each
perfon his requifite expreffion.

In the firft place, it would be proper to give
as much authority, and dignity, to the atti-
tude and figure of Christ, as is confiftent
with the humility of the Son of Man, who
not many minutes before had manifefted him-
felf <f the acquaintance of grief."

Lazarus we may confider as a man of vi-
gorous years, perhaps about thirty.

His fifter Martha, a woman of a warm
difpofition, noble, generous, free, and yet
careful.

Mary, of a more mild, and placid temper*
and perhaps much the youngeft of this fami-
ly. Both the fillers women of fortune, and
educated accordingly.

Next we place the Apostles, on whofe
characters I mail not enlarge i but fuppofc
Peter as a warm man, to be a forward figure
among them; and John as being " the dif-

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