MEMOIRS OF 



Thus, while (he breath'd of heav'n, with decent pride 



Her artful hands the radiant treffes tied ; 



Part o'er her head in (Inning ringlets roll'd, 



Part o'er her (houlders wav'd like melted gold 5 



Around her neck a heavenly mantle flow'd 



That rich with Pallas' labour'd colours glow'd ; 



Large clafps of gold the foldings gather'd round $ 



A golden zone her fwelling bofom hound ; 



Far-beaming pendants tremble in her car, 



Each gem illumin'd with a triple (tar; 



Then o'er her head (he cafts a veil more white 



Than new fall'n fnow, and dazzling as the light} 



Laft, her fair feet celeftial fan dais grace. 



Thus ifluing radiant, with majeftic pace, 



Forth from the dome th 1 imperial Goddefs moves, 



And calls the mother of the Smiles and Loves. 



Pope has mown better tafte in female 

 drefs than his mafter. A zone with an 

 hundred folds of fringe upon it, mud be a 

 very heavy and inelegant ornament. The 

 zone of plain gold, fubftituted by the 

 rhyme tranflator, is grander and more 

 graceful as well as more fimple. 



Darwin, who gives this fable after his 

 own manner, tells us, that Venus not only 



lent 



