2l6 ON RUNNING HORSES, 8cC. 



comporition, juft fpoken of. Whenever I (land 

 mufing upon the {hore, to view the undulating 

 furges, agitated and impelled onwards by the 

 boifterous influence of the nubilus aujler, the 

 fight produces an inftant glow of the imagina- 

 tion, as if from fympathy between the fwelling 

 tide in my heart, and the foaming billows at my 

 feet ; and that majeftic and beautifully expref- 

 five line of Virgil, never fails to join in the 

 pleafing aflbciation, by fpontaneoufly prefenting 

 itfelf to my memory, 



Et vaftos volvunt ad littora fluflus. 



The following celebrated verfe 



Vade, age, nate, voca Zephyros, & labere pennis, 



was Engliflied by the late Dr. Coyte, of facetious 

 memory, with more humour than corre61nefs. 



Come here you mufl, you dog, take your a — in your hand, 

 and be ofF in a canter. 



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