246 
Hung on his fhoulders like the moon. ver. 
fe clypet, aut Phebee lemtadis, inflar. 
Vikc. En. iii. 637. 
Thick as autumnal leaves, that ftrow the 
brooks 
In Vall mbrofa. Ver. 302. 
Ainy yuo Quanotet zonores. Hom. IL. B. Sco. 
Inomimbsr thei Aut ummisteazes 2 CHARMAN: 
Frighted the reign of Chaos, and old Night, 
Ver. 543- 
fragor cethera terruit ipfum. 
Ovin, Falt.i 567. 
SopuocLes, Cid. Tyr. 107. 
and with fear of change 
Perplexes monarchs. Ver. 598. 
Plutarch, in the life of Paulus Aimili- 
us, speaking of a dunar eclipfe, i. p- p. 264; 
B. fays, Pacidsws TO DOTA TNpLOLVELY ee 
The fame preenele is afferted of comets, 
by Lucan. i. 529. Walerius Flaccus, vi. 
608, and Sie Italicus, 1. 461. 
the fudden blaze 
Far round illumin’d hell. Ver. 665. 
Fulzur ubi cd ceelum fe tollit, totaque circum 
Fire renidefcit tellus. LUCRETIUS, ii. 327. 
, At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. 
Meraz8s- 
—— perculfus Achates 
Latitiague, metuque. VircG. AEN.i. 514. 
Who follows Lucretius, ii. 28, where I 
have noticed many elegant paflages of 
the fame fentiment. 
—— his tongue 
Dropt manna, Book ii. ver. 113. 
This was undoubtedly fuggefted by 
Homer’s fl. A. 240. 
Ts yuo «mo DALE chur Gy yAuniwy ceey wen. 
‘Words flow’d than honey fweeter, from his 
tongue. 

PLOY his LHOTH. 




= 


His red right hand to plague us. Ver. 17: 
w———— rubente dexteré. Horack, Od. 1. 2. 
©! fhame to men! &c. Ver. Ae. 
This. whole pafiage ts evidently formed 
on one of great exceilence in Juvenal, 
fat. xvi. 159-169. 
But fate withfands. 
Fata obfiant. 
to thy fpced add ae 
Cem pedibus timor addidit alas. 
JEN. Vill. 224. 
Ver. 610. 
Vine, AEN. iv. 440. 
Ver. 700- 
— 
from his horrid hair 
Shakes peftilence and war. 
nec divi toties arfere comete. 

Ver. 710. 

VrrG. Geo. i. 488, 
Cub. 42 
oes AuLato guatiebat Jumiaa curru. 
the gates wide open ftood, 
That with extended wings a banner’d hos, 

Under fpread .enfigns marching, ree pafs 
through, 
With horfe and chariots rank’d in loofe array. 
Ver, 384: 
Imitations of the Ancients in Milton. 
fOk, 
This is a very noble paflage, expanded, 
with confummate {kill, from Homer's 
defcription of Aigyptian Thebes, I]. i. 
383. 
Al? Luatourry hot ELTé, Sie oy ixaeTny 
Ayeoes Lory VEUTL TUY LEMOLGL web OY ETOLY- 
Pope’s tranflation is alfo very magnifi- 
cent = 
That fpreads her conquets: o’er a thoufand 
ftates, 
And pours her heroes through a hundred gates 5 
Two hundred horfemen, and two hundred cars, 
From each wide portal iffuing to the wars. 
Vv 
The ftrong rebuff of fome tumultuous cloud, 
InttinG with fire and nitre, hurried him 
As many miles aloft, Ver. 936. 
Akhe nev v8 net evOo Decor moots uenna, Suerry 
Agyahene Hestop, Theog. 738- 
I faw and heard; for fach a numerous hoft- 
Fled not in filence through the frighted deep. 
} Ver. 993- 
Ad. OicF >» Fy GTLAT ELLY eer oT EUT on eOotecy 5 ; 
Qn. Ov yao v1 oy, duemenuoes “Earader. / 
EURIPIDES, Supp. 137. 
Hail, holy lighz! Book iv. 1. 
—— xen UT ay DUG] Fesov edOn. 
Hesrop, Opp. et di. 337- 
as the wakeful bird 
Sings darkling ; and, in fhadieft covert hid, 
Tunes her nocturnal note. Ver. 39. 
Acovesy aul Tuxtvorrsy aupopcevok HaTt OvAAOtC. 
; Moscuvs, lil. 9. 
So much the rather thou, celeftial light ! 
Shine inward. Ver. 516 
Otrurt ora deus, totamque in fectora lucem 
ctulit. Stativs, Theb. iv. 542. 
invifible to mortal fight. Ver. 55. 
—Mortales oculos. Lucret. 1. 67. 
—Morteles vifus. Vire. An. il. 605. 
He afk’d, but all the heavn’ly quire ftood 



mute, 
And filence was in heav'n, Ver. 217. 
“Qs epaG”. of & LLC THOYTES MANY EYSYOVTO TiWT 7. 
Hom. ll. K. 218. 
Blofloms and fruits at once of golden hue. 
Book iv. 148. 
This was evidently taken from the 
following verfe in Homer’s defcription of 
the garden of Alcinous; after which, 
indeed, this whole paflage is fafhioned, 
as others have obferved : 
AAG pen’ ate 
ZePugin TvEwre Te prev Duely ware cs TET. 
Op. H. I19. 
The fame mild feafon givesthe blooms to blow, 
The buds to harden, and the fruits to grow. 
PopE. 
As Waller, in- his Battle of the Sxm- 
mer Ulands : 
Ripe fruits and bloffoms on the fame trees live, 
At once they promife, what. at once they give. 


As when to them who fail_ _ 
Beyond the Cape of Hope, &c. Ver. 159. 
This very beautiful and fublime iluf- 
tration 

