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THE DECORATIONS OF TIIE
IV.—SIR WILLIAM ROSS, R.A.
What! have you let the false enchanter 'scape ?
0 ye mistook ; ye should have snatch'd his wand,
Andbomidhimfast.
CoMMM,Y.81'2—8] G.
The two brothers with drawn swords drive out Comus and his crew. The attendant spirit stands
in front; the Lady is seated behind. In the spandrils, a Bacchante and a Diana.
V.—DANIEL MACLISE, R.A.
Brightest Lady, look on me ;
Thus I sprinkle on thy breast
Drops, that from my fountain pure
I have kept, of precious cure.
CoTMMS, v. 910—919.
The Lady, spell-bound, not only " in stony fetters Rxed, and motionless," but asleep or in a trance,
is seated in the marble chair. Sabrina and lier attendant nymphs are hovering round her. One
nymph presents in a shell the water " from the tountain pure.'* Sabrina, bending* over the Lady, is
about to sprinkle her and to pronounce tlie " dissevering charm." In front stand the two brothers
and the attendant spirit. In the spandrils, two of the deformed "rabble rout" look down in
atfright.
VI.—EDfVIN LANDSEER, R.A.
- Their human countenunce,
Th' express resemblance of the gods, is changed
Into some brutish form of wolf or bcar,
Or ounee or tiger, hog or benrded goa,t.
(7o?^MS, v. 68—71.
The same subject as No. IV., very diffcrently treated. Comus, surrounded by his crew, is terrified
by the approach of the brothers, who appear behind in the act of rushing upon them. A Bacchante, witli a
beautiful iemale form, and the head of a hound, has thrown lierself in affright upon the arm of Comus.
Other monsters, half brute, half human, in various attitudes of mad revelry—grovelling, bestial insensibility
—confusion and terror—are seen around him; tlie patlietic, the poetical, tlie horrible, the grotesque, all
wildly, strangely mingled. In the spandrils are two heads—a grinning ape, and a bear drinking.
VII.—W. DYCE, A.R.A.
Noble Loi'd a.nd La,dy bright,
I liavc brouglit ye new delight.
Here behold, so goodly growu,
Three fair brauches of your own.
Co?MM,v.968—975.
The attendant spirit, kneeling, presents tlie liberated Lady and her two brothers to their noble parents,
who come fortli irom their " state" to receive their princely progeny. In the spandrils, two guardian angels
present crowns of white roses and myrtle.
VIII.—C. L. EASTLAKE, R.A.
- If virtue feeble were,
Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
C0HM43, V. 1022.
Virtue, ascending to the " sphery chime," faints on the steep and rugged patli. A seraph. with a
THE DECORATIONS OF TIIE
IV.—SIR WILLIAM ROSS, R.A.
What! have you let the false enchanter 'scape ?
0 ye mistook ; ye should have snatch'd his wand,
Andbomidhimfast.
CoMMM,Y.81'2—8] G.
The two brothers with drawn swords drive out Comus and his crew. The attendant spirit stands
in front; the Lady is seated behind. In the spandrils, a Bacchante and a Diana.
V.—DANIEL MACLISE, R.A.
Brightest Lady, look on me ;
Thus I sprinkle on thy breast
Drops, that from my fountain pure
I have kept, of precious cure.
CoTMMS, v. 910—919.
The Lady, spell-bound, not only " in stony fetters Rxed, and motionless," but asleep or in a trance,
is seated in the marble chair. Sabrina and lier attendant nymphs are hovering round her. One
nymph presents in a shell the water " from the tountain pure.'* Sabrina, bending* over the Lady, is
about to sprinkle her and to pronounce tlie " dissevering charm." In front stand the two brothers
and the attendant spirit. In the spandrils, two of the deformed "rabble rout" look down in
atfright.
VI.—EDfVIN LANDSEER, R.A.
- Their human countenunce,
Th' express resemblance of the gods, is changed
Into some brutish form of wolf or bcar,
Or ounee or tiger, hog or benrded goa,t.
(7o?^MS, v. 68—71.
The same subject as No. IV., very diffcrently treated. Comus, surrounded by his crew, is terrified
by the approach of the brothers, who appear behind in the act of rushing upon them. A Bacchante, witli a
beautiful iemale form, and the head of a hound, has thrown lierself in affright upon the arm of Comus.
Other monsters, half brute, half human, in various attitudes of mad revelry—grovelling, bestial insensibility
—confusion and terror—are seen around him; tlie patlietic, the poetical, tlie horrible, the grotesque, all
wildly, strangely mingled. In the spandrils are two heads—a grinning ape, and a bear drinking.
VII.—W. DYCE, A.R.A.
Noble Loi'd a.nd La,dy bright,
I liavc brouglit ye new delight.
Here behold, so goodly growu,
Three fair brauches of your own.
Co?MM,v.968—975.
The attendant spirit, kneeling, presents tlie liberated Lady and her two brothers to their noble parents,
who come fortli irom their " state" to receive their princely progeny. In the spandrils, two guardian angels
present crowns of white roses and myrtle.
VIII.—C. L. EASTLAKE, R.A.
- If virtue feeble were,
Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
C0HM43, V. 1022.
Virtue, ascending to the " sphery chime," faints on the steep and rugged patli. A seraph. with a