ISQ On, the Machhie^ry'.qf the 



half humaft, half beastly fornl;:. the; ugly, pot- 

 bellied, drunfeen : Sileniis, the fit preceptor of 

 Bacchus;; (1:h?e,: versatile ; Proteus^ \yith his 

 Cameleon transmutations and followed by, the 

 deified monsters of the Deep; the sooty 

 blacksmithg. in- the caverns of Mount ^'Etna ; 

 the inf<ji:nal gods, not" l^s&[.horrid.ri9fH their 

 persons rthjiri .in their minds, not ill pre- 

 figurediby. the three-headed, porter of hell, 

 whom a. greasy sop can debauch from his duty, 

 with a thousand more, , constitute altogether a 

 magnificent group ;;r they, form a glorious ad- 

 dition to; the Dii Majorca, whom we have con- 

 ternplated ;: they furnis^h a splendid imagery to 

 grace the sublimer poetry of the ancients. — 

 There is, indeed, ip the personification of the 

 ideas of.;the mind, or of the rich scenery of 

 tature.a; realcp(^etiG beauty, which man de- 

 lights Ufii-whit^h gives animation and power to 

 language ; land this is a"propensity common to 

 men; it is not peculiar to the heathen mytho- 

 logy, it has been the common vehicle of human 

 description in all ages and nations. But these 

 }^alY«: .mo- resemblance to the rabble, whom we 

 have i noticed; this rabble, have a being and 

 appropriate agency, and can with no dignity, 

 with 1^0 bea;tity, be introduced into the higher 

 walks of poetry. ,, . 



If we look in vain; therefore, for grand and 



