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EXP 93
fru-thcr defcription of him, it is a great improvement to
the portrait, to them who know that circumftance.
There is an infhmce of this in a pi£ture of Van-
dyke, of John Lyvens, who is drawn as if he was
liftening at fomediing ; which refers to a remarkable
ftory in that man's life.
In the carton where the people of Lycaonia are going
to facrifice to St. Paul and Barnabas, the occafion of
this is finely told : The man who was healed of his
lameucfs is one of the forwarder! to exprefs his fenfe of
the divine power which appeared in thofe apoftles ; and
to fhew it to be him, not only a crutch is under his
feet on the ground, but an old man takes up the lappet
of his garment, and looks upon the limb which he
remembered to have been crippled, and expreffes great
devotion andadmiration ; which fentiments are alfofeen
in the other, with a mixture of joy.
When the ftory of Jofeph's interpretation of Pharaoh's
dreams was to be related, Raphael hath painted thofe
dreams in two circles over the figures : which he hath
alfo done when Jofeph relates his own to his brethren.
The hyperbolical artifice of Timanthes to exprefs
the vaftnefs of the Cyclops is well known, and was
mightily admired by the ancients ; he made feveral
fatyrs about him, as if he was afleep ; fome were run-
ning away as frightened, others gazing at a diftance,
and one was meafuring his thumb with his thyrfus,
but feeming to do it with great caution left he fhould
awake.
I will add but one example more of this kind, and
No, 37, N that
fru-thcr defcription of him, it is a great improvement to
the portrait, to them who know that circumftance.
There is an infhmce of this in a pi£ture of Van-
dyke, of John Lyvens, who is drawn as if he was
liftening at fomediing ; which refers to a remarkable
ftory in that man's life.
In the carton where the people of Lycaonia are going
to facrifice to St. Paul and Barnabas, the occafion of
this is finely told : The man who was healed of his
lameucfs is one of the forwarder! to exprefs his fenfe of
the divine power which appeared in thofe apoftles ; and
to fhew it to be him, not only a crutch is under his
feet on the ground, but an old man takes up the lappet
of his garment, and looks upon the limb which he
remembered to have been crippled, and expreffes great
devotion andadmiration ; which fentiments are alfofeen
in the other, with a mixture of joy.
When the ftory of Jofeph's interpretation of Pharaoh's
dreams was to be related, Raphael hath painted thofe
dreams in two circles over the figures : which he hath
alfo done when Jofeph relates his own to his brethren.
The hyperbolical artifice of Timanthes to exprefs
the vaftnefs of the Cyclops is well known, and was
mightily admired by the ancients ; he made feveral
fatyrs about him, as if he was afleep ; fome were run-
ning away as frightened, others gazing at a diftance,
and one was meafuring his thumb with his thyrfus,
but feeming to do it with great caution left he fhould
awake.
I will add but one example more of this kind, and
No, 37, N that