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1. Best and happiest artisan

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Best and happiest artisan
Last Line:
The breathing paint will speak anon
DMI number:
25244

2. Blessed and happiest artisan

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Blessed and happiest artisan
Last Line:
The breathing paint will speak anon
DMI number:
25221

3. Christina hail O virgin great in war

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Christina hail O virgin great in war
Last Line:
Nor always monarchs tremble at my frown
DMI number:
19436

4. Draw some Apelles draw me here

First Line:
Draw some Apelles draw me here
Last Line:
Look look her very picture speaks
Author:
Francis Willis (Absolute)
DMI number:
39242

5. Draw some Apelles draw me here

First Line:
Draw some Apelles draw me here
Last Line:
The picture's self I think will speak
Author:
Francis Willis (Absolute)
DMI number:
42595

6. Hail king of horses noble Rosinante

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Hail king of horses noble Rosinante
Last Line:
Did gallop once or else the historian fails
DMI number:
9442

7. Hail sacred art that canst in colours show

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Hail sacred art that canst in colours show
Last Line:
A reverence for their past laborious pains
DMI number:
11173

8. Hence foolish calf thy cries refrain

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Hence foolish calf thy cries refrain
Last Line:
But real milk exceeds his art
DMI number:
32973

9. Here artist all thy skill impart

First Line:
Here artist all thy skill impart
Last Line:
Our wine his western ocean
Author:
Francis Willis (Absolute)
DMI number:
42590

10. My rhyme unforced attends to reasons call

First Line:
My rhyme unforced attends to reasons call
Last Line:
Or take him for a friend to truth
DMI number:
8945

11. If painter thou true life canst draw

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If painter thou true life canst draw
Last Line:
For both are gods both loved by me
Author:
Thomas Wood (Absolute)
DMI number:
42596

12. If that some painter in a piece should place

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If that some painter in a piece should place
Last Line:
Will burst or kill them ere they'll reading leave
DMI number:
42213

13. Painter be all thy art expressed

First Line:
Painter be all thy art expressed
Last Line:
Soon soon will speak the pictured maid
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation)
DMI number:
31434

14. Once as Jove traversed over his usual rounds

First Line:
Once as Jove traversed over his usual rounds
Last Line:
His fancy knows no limits but the whole
Author:
Claudian (Absolute)
DMI number:
43413

15. Prithee painter do but hear

First Line:
Prithee painter do but hear
Last Line:
And be the only varnish here
Author:
Francis Willis (Absolute)
DMI number:
39263

16. Say image by what sculptor's hand

First Line:
Say image by what sculptor's hand
Last Line:
I vanish unperceived away
DMI number:
33631

17. See by some hand industrious grown

First Line:
See by some hand industrious grown
Last Line:
So natural as if born even here
Author:
Francis Willis (Absolute)
DMI number:
42614

18. See by some industrious art

First Line:
See by some industrious art
Last Line:
So natural as if born here
DMI number:
39264

19. Thanks to the mighty Phidias of our age

First Line:
Thanks to the mighty Phidias of our age
Last Line:
In after ages shall be seen and praised
DMI number:
8946

20. The pencil's glowing lines the painter's care

First Line:
The pencil's glowing lines the painter's care
Last Line:
The spiry flames which shoot through rolling smoke
Author:
Nicholas Amhurst (Confident)
DMI number:
24332