Milton’s Imitations of the Ancients, by Mr. Wakefield, 
Compare alfo Odyff: N. finem. 
—— {miles from reafon flow, 
‘To brutes deny’d: book ix. ver. 239. 

Nemefius, de homine, p. 22. ed. Oxon. 
sdsov cote Tus eotas avOpwore To yeAaoTinor, 
E7FEb on “nab ead TST Wposea sts “Ab TAVT bs 
HOLE LEDs 
Earth felt the wound; and nature from her 
feat 
Sighing through all her works, gave figns of 
woe - 
That all was loft: ver. 782. That 
This incomparable fpecimen of fublimity 
and pathos is effentially indebted to a 
paflage from Virgil already quoted at 
ver. 511. of the preceding book, and to 
Georg. lv..491. 
——————— Ibi omnis 
Effufus labor, atque immitis rupta tyranni 
Federa; terque fragor ftagnis auditus Aver- 
nis. 
Compare too Hom. Il. N. 491. 
And knew not eating death: ver. 
This is a pure Grecifm; Kas 7o2,- 
Beavaroy Payscn. ey e1de 
Sky lower’d; and mutt’ring thunder, fome 
fad drops 
Wept —: ver. 1002. 
Aiwatorcous J iadag nate xevev epaeCe on 
Taide Qrroy truov: Hom. Il. 1. 459, 


——-—= breeding wings 
Wherewith to icorn the earth: ver. IOIO, 
Spernit bumum fugiente pennd: Hor. od. ili. 
Qe 24. 
The bended twigs take root, and daughters 
grow 
About the mother tree, a pillar’d 
_ Ver. 1105. 
fhade: 
—-— etiam Parnafia laurus 
Parva fub ingenti matris fe fubjicit 
Virg. Geo. ii. 19. 

umbra ; 
Which he prefumes already vain and yoid, 
Becaufe not yet inflicted, as he fear’d, 
By fome immediate ftroke: book x. ver. 50. 
Ignoviffe putas, quia cum tonat, ocyus ilex 
pulfure difcutitur facro, quam tuque, do- 
mufgue? Perfius ii. 24. 
Bridging his way : ver. 310. . 
yepugwoe xerevdov:; Hom. Il, 
O. 357. 
With hatefulleft difrelith writh’d their jaws, 
ver. 569. 
ne a 

py appaos as —— ora 
‘Friffia tentantum fenfu torguebit amaror 3 
Virg. Geo, ii, 247. 
Why am I mock’d to death, and lengthen’d 
owt cole 
Pomme Why dol overlive ? 
To deathlefs pain? How gladly would I. 
meet 
Mortality my fentence? ver. 773. 
Quo vitam dedit zternam? cur mortis adempe- 
ta eft 
Conditio ? Poffem tantos finire dolores 
Nunc certe, et mifero fratri comes ire fub 
umbras. 
immortalis ego? Virg. Ain. xii, $79. 

—— Shattering the- graceful locks 
Of thefe fair fpreading trees : which bids us 
feek me 
Some better fhroud: ver. 1066. 
And gan anone, fo foftly as I coulde, 
Amonge the du/bes prively me to fbroudes 
Chaucer’s Blacke Knight, ftanza 24. 
To whom the Father, without cloud ferenes 
Book xi. ver. 45. 
This alludes 
to Pfalm xcvii. 2. 
‘© Clouds and darknefs are round about - 
him.”’ 

————— and, if by prayer | 
Inceflant I could hope to change the will 
Of him who all things can, I would not 
ceafe 
. Toweary him with my affiduous cries - 
ver. 307. 
a ee ee et es ee prece qua fatigent 
Virgines fanéte minus audientem 
Carmina Veftam? Hor. od. ie 2. 62¢ 
on ——— who, if we knew 
What we receive, would either not accept 
Life offered, or foo beg to lay it down, 
Glad to be fo difmiffed in peace: ver. 505. 
The poet had in view a well-known 
epigram of Pofidippus : 
Hy apa rosvoe, duory ¥@- AicErIs, n To yever Oa 
Mud: wor, 1 To bavery eutime TixTos 
[eVOVe 
And the lait claufe is from Luke ii, 296 
——— — others from the wall defend » 
With dart and javelin, ftones and falphurous 
fires ver.-567. 
Hii jaculis, illi certant defendere faxis, 
Molirique ignem, nervoque aptare fagittas 
Virg. An. x. 130. 
Baptizing in the profluent ftream: x1i. ver. 
442. 
Livy, i. 43-—‘ Pueros in profluentem aquam 
miltti jubet.”’ ule 
To the Editor of ihe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ee laft number of your Magazine 
announces that Dr. BepDOoEs will 
foun favour the public with one or two 
more centuries of obfervations, on the 

anti-venereal effects of nitrous acid; and © 
that he thinks he fhall be able to bring 
forward fuch facts as fhall, in fome mea~ 
fure, account for the general failures ve 
ave 
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