178 
defcriptions are drawn out to length and 
minutenefs. 
Several of the heathen deities, efpe- 
cially of the fubordinate ones, are embo- 
died conceptions of this kind. -ERIs, 
STRIFE oF CONTENTION, is thus fketch- 
ed by the father of heroic poetry. 
Epis a.cloy fAE[ACU ELL, 
Apeos cevepo@ovor9 waovyyilny Elaon Te, 
Hit oAryn ey apele. nopUaceTes, avian eTesie 
Ovexie eornesce HGLEN, KELb eWs sesors Canvas. 
Hi. iv. 240. 

Qe 
; oti yj Cy 
Sifter and m 
Who, {mall 
~ earth 
Her tow’ring creft lifts gradual to the fkies. 
4 Cowper. 
1. e . . 7 ° 
By this. growing quality 1s emblemati- 
_eally denoted the property of Strife to {weil 
to a great ize from {mall beginnings. 
Her relationthip to the god of war is an 
obvious piece of allegory. Her rage and 
st 
fafy may be termed the zatural part. of 
the portrait. 
DtscorD, if not entirely the fame with 
firife, differs only as it more expreisly im- 
plies difagreement between thofe who be- 
fore were united. There are many poeti- 
cal reprefertations of this character. In 
the following, fublime and vulgar concep- 
* tions are fingularly blended. 
Infremuere tube, ac fciffo difcordia crine 
~Extulit ad fuperos Stygium caput: hujus in ore 
Concretus fanguis contufaque lurnina fleoant. 
Stabant zrati {cabra rubigine dentes: 
Tabo lingua fluens, obfeffa draconibus ora 5 
Atque intertorto laceratam peCtore veftem, 
Sanguineam tremula quatiebat lampada dextra. 
Petron. Bel. Civil. 
The trumpets roar’d ; when lo! to upper air 
_ Difcord her Stygian head, with tatter’d locks, 
Upreard: her face with curdled blood was 
biack, - 
And her bruifed eyeballs wept; her brazen 
teeth. , 
With ruf were furr’ds her tongue diftilled 
with gore 3 
Serpents her cheeks bedeck’d! around her 
breait 
A ragged’robe was wreativd 5 
Trembling the fhook aloft a bloody torch’ 
Her emerging from hell at the found of 
the trumpet is finely conceived and ex- 
prefled ; but the bloody face and bruiied 
weeping eyes convey the idea of adrunken 
trull rather than a goddefs. ‘The reft of 
the piéture is the commen one of a fury. 
The Difcerd of Ariofto is a very differ- 
ent perfonage, fuited to the ftyle of bur- 
lefque rather-than of heroic poetry. Sane 
= 
On the Perfonification 
[Sept 
is Yery unexpedtedly found, by the arch~ 
ange! Michael, in a convent, and thefe are 
her diftinétions. 
z 
La conobbe al veftir di color cento, 
Fatta a lifte inequali, ed infinite 5 
Ch’or la coprono, or nd3 che i pafii, el vente 
Le giano aprendo, ch’era—no sdruicite. 
I crini avea qual @oro, e qual dargento, 
E neri, e bigi, e aver pareano Lite. 
Altri in treccia, altri in naftro erano accolti 5 
Molti alle {palle, alcunial petto {ciolti. 
Di citatorie piene, e di libelli, 
D’efamine, e di carte di progure 
Avea le mani, e il feno, e gran fafteili 
Di chiofe, diconfigli, e di letture 5 
Per cui le faculta de’ poverelil 
Non fono mai nelle citta acures 
Avea dietro, dinanzi, e @’ambi i lati 
Notai, Procuratori, ed Avvocatt. 
. Orl. Fur. xiv. 33- 
Je knew her by the vefure’s hundred dies, 
Of lifts unnumber’d, of unequal ize; 
Which rent in shreds but ill thofe jimos con- 
ceald , 
By every ftep or breath of wind reveal’d. 
Her uncomb’d ‘hairs feem’d conftant ftrife to 
hoid, : 
Of various hues, black, Glver,brown,and gold. 
Some hung in ringlets, fome in knots were 
LiEG 3 
Her bofom fome, and fome her shoulders hide 
Her hands and lap a countleis medley bore 
Of writs, citations, (an exhauftieis ftore !) 
Opprefiion’s various forms, 
poor 1 
In cities never find their ftate fecure. 
Before, behind, on either Gide her. ftand 
Attornies, notaries,—a brawling band ! 
Hoole. 
The figure of Difcord is here formed 
upon the idea of her being at variance 
ewith herself. This is, however, carried. 
much farrher by Spencer, in a long de- 
{cription of the fame perfonage under the 
name of ATE, framed in the moft ftudied 
aliegorical manner, and overcharged with 
emblem (F. Q.: iv. 1.) 
near the'gates of hell, and has many ways 
leading into it, but none out again, fince 
Difcord harder is to end than to begin. 
The omaments of her house are very 
poetically defcribed as the relies of every 
thing great and flourishing, which Dil- 
cord had in former times brougit to ruin, 
Around, the ground 1s full of wicked 
weeds, which fe herfelf had fown from 
the feeds of evil words and factious deeds. 
Thefe yield a large itreafe of conten- 
tions end troubles ; and Ave feeds on them 
ascher daily bread. Her form is wonder- 
‘fully frange and monfrous, bemg 4 
compound of every thing iil-forted and 
contra- 
that make the 
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