NOTES. 77 



NOTE XV. VERSE 124. 

 nis rare, this ardiiQUs tajk no rules can teach. 

 This muft be meant to refer to Invention, and not to the 

 precepts immediately preceding, which relating only to the 

 mechanical difpofition of the 'work, cannot be fuppofed to be 

 out of the reach of the rules of art, or not to be acquired 

 but by the afiiftance of fupernatural power.. R. 



NOTE XVI. VERSE 127. 

 Prometheus ravijtid from the Car of Day. 



After the lines in the original of this paflage,. there comes 

 in one of a proverbial caft, taken from Horace * : " Non uti 

 Daedaliam licet omnibus ire Corinthum." I could not intro- 

 duce a verfion of this with any grace into the conclufion of the 

 fentence ; and indeed I do not think it connects well in the 

 original. It certainly conveys no truth of importance, nor adds 

 much to what went before it. I fuppofe, therefore, I fhall be 

 pardoned for having taken no notice of it in my tranflation. 



Mr. Ray, in his Colle&ion of Englim Proverbs, brings this 

 of Horace as a parallel to a ridiculous Englim one, viz. Every 

 mans nofe will not make a Jhoeing-horn. It is certain, > were a 

 Proverb here introduced, it ought to be of Englim growth to 

 fuit an Englim tranflation j but this, alas ! * would not fit my 

 purpofe, and Mr. Ray gives us no other. I hold myfelf, 

 therefore, excufeable for leaving the line untranslated, M. 



K 3; NOTE 



'Horace's line runs thus, (Epiftle 17, Book I. line 36:) 

 Non cuivis Homini contingit adire Corimhum. 



