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maintains a contrary doctrine to that 

 contained in tlie abqve quotation, has 

 tlie following lines : 

 '• All lb' unnccomplish'd works of Nature's 



hauti, 

 Abortive, moustrows or unkindly mix'd, 

 Dissolv'il oil eartb, fleet hither, and in vain, 

 Till final ilissolution, -.vander here, 

 Not in tlie nei^hb'ring moon, as some have 



dreani'il : 

 Embryos, and idiots, eremites and fi iars. 

 White, black, and grey, with all their trum- 

 pery ; 

 Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers 



tost 

 And fluttered into rngs: then reliqiies, beads, 

 iDdulgeuces, dispenses, pardons, bulls." 

 Parad. Lost. in. 4 55, 92. 

 In liis ' Wiutbor Forest,' tlie story of 

 the flight and transformation of Lo- 

 dona, is t;iken from Ovid. The follow- 

 ing animated picture of the fiery cour- 

 ser, impatient of delay, and panting 

 with eager impetuosity for the charge, 

 deserves particular notice. In Statius 

 we find a siniilar description : 



" Th' impatient courser pants in every 



vein. 

 And pawing seems to beat the distant plain ; 

 Hills, vales, and floods, appear already 



cross'd, 

 And ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost." 



151, 54. 

 " Stare loco uescit pereunt vestigia mille 

 Ante fugani, absentemque ferit gravis ungula 



campum." 

 In (he enumeration of the tributaiy 

 waters of the Thames, Pope has dis- 

 played considerable skill andjtidgment. 

 He however found some examples in 

 the poems of Claudian, Drayton, Spen- 

 ser and Milton : 

 '• Indigenas fluvios Italis quicunque suber- 



rant 

 Mouilibus, Alpinasque bibunt de more pru- 



inas ; 

 Vulluinu?que rapnx, et Nar vifiatus odoro 

 Sulfure, tardatus que suis erroribus Ul'eus ; 

 Et PhaeionlCiB Perpessus damna ruinas 

 Eridanus, flavaeque terens querceta Maricse 

 Siris, et ffibaliije qui temporal arva Gale- 



sus." 



In Prob. et Olyh. Cous, v. 524. 

 " Rivers arise ! whether thou be the son 

 Of utmost Tweed, or Oiise, or giilphy Don, 

 Or Trent, who like some earth-born giant 



spreads 

 His thrriy arms along ih' indented meads; 

 Or sullen Mole, that runneth underneath. 

 Or Severn swift, guilty of maiden's death ; 

 Or rocky Avon, or of sedgy Lee, 

 Or coaly Tyne, or ancient hallow'd Dee. 

 Or Humber loud, that keeps the Scythian's 



name, 

 OrMedwaysmooth.orroyallow'redTliame." 



Milton's Poetical Works, Vol. iv. ii. 91. 

 First the fam'd authors of his ancient name. 

 The winding Isis and tha fruitful Tamo ; 



[Feb. 1, 



The Kennet swift, for silver eels renown'd, 

 The Loddon slow, with verdant osiers 



crovvn'd : 

 Cole, whose dark streams his flow'ry islands 



lave, 

 And chalky Wey, that rolls a milky wave : 

 The blue transparent Vandalis appears ; 

 The gulphy Lee his sedgy tresses rears ; 

 The sullen Mole, that hides his diving flood. 

 And silent Darent, stain'd with British 

 blood." 



Windsor Forest, 337, 46. 

 " All little rivers which owe vassalage 

 To Thames, as to their lord, their tribute pay : 

 The chalky Kennet and the Thetis gray ; 

 The Morish Cole, and the soft sliding Breane; 

 The wafiton Lee, that oft doth lose his way, 

 And the still Darent, in whose waters cleane 

 Ten thousand fishes play and deck his plea- 

 sant stream. "• 

 For the outline of the 'Temple of 

 Fame,' Pope is indebted, as he himself 

 acknowleilges, to the original and in- 

 venlive genius of Chaucer. The de- 

 scription of the exterior and interior 

 appearance of the Temple itself bears 

 a strong resemblance to Milton's view 

 of Pandaemonium. 

 " On this foundation Fame's high temple 



stands, 

 Stupendous pile 1 not rear'd by mortal hands. 

 Four faces bad the dome, and ev'ry face 

 Of various structure, but of equal grace : 

 Four brazen gates, on columns lifted high, 

 Salute the diff'rent quarters of the sky." 

 " Westward, a sumptuous frontispiece ap- 



pear'd, 

 On Doric pillars of white marble rear'd : 

 Crown'd with an architrave of antique mold, 

 And sculpture rising on theroughen'd gold." 



" The temple shakes, the sounding gates un- 

 fold, 

 Wide vaults appear and roofs of fretted 



gold : 

 Rais'd on n thousand pillars, wreath'd 



around. 

 With laurel foliage, and with eagles crown'd : 

 Of bright transparent beryl were the walls, 

 The friezes gold and gold the capitals : 

 As heaven with stars, the roof tcith jewels 



glows, 

 And ever lining lamps depend in rows." 



Temple of Fame, 61, 144. 

 " Anon out of the earth a fabric huge 

 Rose like an exhalation,! with the sound 



• Faery Queene, B. 4, cant. 11, stan. 39. 

 See also the succeeding stanzas down to 

 stan. 44 : particularly stan. 30, 32, 35. 36, 

 37 and 39 : describing the Humber, the Se- 

 vern, the Mole, the Trent, the Tyne, the 

 Tweed, and the Dee, the epithets of which 

 rivers, as given by Spenser, Milton must cer- 

 tainly have had in view in writing his own 

 description of them. 



t This simile Pope has employed at verse 

 9Iia the lines, The 



