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form of a make, it attempts tb efcape from 

 the hero. It is thus admirably pictured : 



Then to a fnake the finny Demon turn'd, 

 His lengthen'd form, with fcales of filver burn'd ; 

 Lafh'd, with refiftlefs fweep, his dragon-train, 

 And (hot meandering o'er th' affrighted plain. 



Perhaps the defcription of the Fiend's 

 next transformation into a Bull, is not 

 eminently judicious ; the terms " filver 

 " hoofs," and " flowery meadows," which 

 might well have fuited the gentle bull of 

 Europa, are too nice and gay to harmonize 

 well with the enraged monfter, one of 

 whofe horns was torn off by Hercules, 

 Of the habits and manners of that formi- 

 dable Brute, when incenfed, a very inferior 

 Poet, lately deceafed, has given a more 

 impreffive picture. We fometimes find 

 one or two good paflages in the writings of 

 ordinary verifiers. Sternhold's and Hop- 

 kins' nonfenfical and vulgar tranflation of 

 the Pfalms, contain eight lines which Pope 



profefled 



