IVJ On the Madiinery vf the 



clispassionate view of the Iliads . which wiH 

 support the notion, that he hadtoyiControliftg 

 jn.pral in the eye '^f his , mind, according to 

 which he constructed his poemi or that he 

 fashioned and 3haped his men, and gods to 

 fit there M-tbi^,. moral. On the subject of 

 i)ne leading moral of tl^ Iliad, to which tl^ 

 ^vbole poem is supposed to be conformed, I 

 shall add this farther observation, that besides 

 piety to tlie Gods, which I hav^ already 

 noticed, this other moral, whether . designed 

 by Homer or no, is very strongly impressed 

 on every feature of the poem-, and for which I 

 have no less authority than. that of Horace, 

 an authority of high respect in the court 

 of criticism, 



Quicquid clelirant rege?, plectunlur Achivi. 



Which ma/ be famiUarly translated. 



When kings play thefool^ the people pay the piper. 



It requires also no strain of ingenuity t^i 

 deduce this farther mo^al, as equally entering 

 into the whole {)?ai^ikhM* all human ^v^nts' 

 are governed by the gods, as this moral is 

 not presented by the action, hut by the senti- 

 ments to this purpose,^ which lie siiattered 

 through the whole poem. '^'n;-: 



