Crossword-Solution: LIMN 4 letters, 74 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Let a painter carelessly limn out a million of faces, and you shall find them all different; yes, let him have his copy before him, yet, after all his art, there will remain a sensible distinction: for the pattern or example of everything is the perfectest in that kind, whereof we still come short, though we transcend or go beyond it; because herein it is wide, and agrees not in all points unto its copy.

Its likeness now I’ll limn you out: ’Tis water girdled wide about; It shows a wide and stately door Reached by a bridge the water o’er; ’Tis formed of buildings coupled fair, Coupled is every couple there; Within a quadrate structure tall Muster the merry pleasures all.

Have not mine eyes feasted i' th' frozen Zone Upon a fresh new-grown collation Of apples, unknown sweets, that seem'd to me Hanging to tempt as on the fatal tree, So delicately limn'd I vow'd to try My appetite impos'd upon my eye? You, sir, alone, fame, and all-conqu'ring rime, File the set teeth of all-devouring time.

Hear me, thou prating, milk-faced Modesty, I choose that thou shalt limn this face of mine: say me nay, and I will teach thee a lesson hard of forgetting; for I will silence thy preaching for aye, and lend my serving-men to whip thee through the streets.

Nevertheless I was of good courage, knowing the Lord’s ways are not as ours; and mindful how Brother Ambrose held that inasmuch as the Heavenly City is laid with fair colours ’twere no sin to deem that a man may limn perfect pictures there, for the gift is from the Lord.” “My son, ’tis a great lesson thou hast learnt,” said the Prior, “for the Word was made Flesh; and as Blessed John hath it, a man cannot love God unseen, if he love not the brother whom He hath given him.