17697. <9) Mikon's Imitations. 419 
_ But filently a gentle tear let fall 
From either eye, and wif'd them rith her 
. hair. Ver. 130. 
Apuleius, met. v. p- 346.ed. Oudend. et 
p- 97. ed. Pricei: oe ute 
——-lacrimafque ejus fuis crinibus detergens. 
Him firf, him laft, him midf, and without 
. end. Ver. 165. 
AXN aie male Tey Xas VETaToV, EY TE prtCOL~ 
oye 
aArtcw— 
or they led rhe vine 
To wed Her elm, Ver. are. 
Et vitem viduas ducit ad arbores. 
| Horace, Od, iv. §. 30. 
Ver. 277 to ver. 286. This noble 
piture of the feraph is effentially in- 
debted to one not lefs poétical, by Cow- 
ley ; David ii. 793813. The paflages 
are too long for infertion in this place ; 
but a comparifon will amply gratify the 
trouble of the reader, who delights in 
thefe great efforts of contending ge- 
nius. 
— ——the third Ais feet 
Shadow’d from either heel with feather’d 
mati, Ver.252. 
Tw pe em axpotatacs Todwy Exateobey 
Epeunvas 
. Zedy werpoperyvw alesuyac, preye Jau.SGe 
 8derBot, 
Kpueeiais gorsdecar Savyece. 
Apoll. Rhod, i. 219, 

Ver, 544 to 548. This hasa general . 
sefemblance to Virgil, Ecl. v. 81—85. 
So fpake the feraph Abdiel, fuirhful found 
Among the faithlefs, faithful only he. 
Ver. 896. 
B xevGy ore, Gy wor” ex ToAAwy eyw 
Movoy @eoseugay Titov: 
> Sophocles, Elect. 1351. 
——'Till morn, with rofy hard. Book vi. 
ver. 2. from the pododaxvAG+ Hws of Homer. 
Hl. A. 477. 
Briftled with upright beams innumerable 
Of rigid fpears, and helmets throng’d, and 
fuelds. Ver. 82. 
——— cuy od: clines tials muxvets 
ATMIT xs xopuleToh, HuL EYY ETL TELPIMUICLL. 
Homer, I]. H. 62. 
Rach warricr fingle, as in chief, expert 

. Annyle mpwlw mparepny preaswle nas ovlw » 
Homer, fl. N. 46. 
Admonuit memorem. Lucretius, ill. 1054. 
Effulgence of my glory, fon belov’'d! Ver. 680. 
Epift. ad Heb. i. 1, 3. Ey viw'—'o: uv 
atavyacae tig Sofngs—auiy. 
War wearied.—Ver. 695. 
Martemque fatigant.— Virgil, AEn. vii. 582 - 
Go then, thou mightieft, in thy father’s 
might, 
bring forth a// my war, 
My bow and thunder ; my almighty arms 
Gird on, WA eLe ECs 
Tuyn 3° wymosiy MEY tye whure revyen Subs 
Aoxe Se Mupuitaverot gironlorturtos pou 
cbc. flomerus, Il. N. 64- 
——though fall’n on evil days, 
On evil days though fall’n. Book vii. Ver. 
eee os 
This repetition is common in the Ro- 


man poets, to whom Homer had given 
various examples of the fame beauty, as in 
ly Wierues ye: 
— nme yi(Y | Ef Tid pb XM pes EQLKEY® 
Es mups epee tonnes prevGy 9 aiDwvs ordngure 
where rivers now 
Steam, and perpetual draw their humid train. 
Ver, 305. 
—j———agmen aguarum. Virgil, Geo, i, 3226 
And fow'd with flars the heav’n thick as a 


frld. Ver. 358. 
The houfe of blefled gods, which men call 
fkye, 
All f yurd with glift* ring fiars more thick than 
graffe. Stanza 8 of Spenfer's Hymne 
of Heavenlie Beautie. 
They fumm’d their pens, and /oaring th’ air 
fublime, 
With clang de/jisd the ground. Ver. 422. 
Ceetufque vulgares, et udam 
Spernit humum fugiente jenna. 
Horace, Ode iii. 2. 24. 
the fwan, with arched neck - 
Between her white wings mantling proudly, 
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Her ftate with oary feet. Ver. 439. 


Haud fecus Evidani ftagnis, ripive Cayftri, 
Innatat aléus olor ; pronoque immobile corpus 
Dat fluvio, et pedibus tacitas eremiga: undas, 
Silius Italicus, xiv. rgr. 
‘When to advance, or ftand, or turn the fway 
Of battel ; open when, and when to clofe, 
The ridges of grim war. Veér.:233. 
Avice tywrey oda prayac os avepoxlaciwas re 
013” ext SeSiee, 018" em’ apsclepay vuyancas Buy 
Agurmy: Homer, Il. H. 237. 
Et_mecum ingentes oras evolvite dell. 
Virgil, ZEn. ix. 528, 
while expeGation fiood 
In horror. Ver. 306. 
————muflabat tacito medicina timore. 
. Lucretius, vi, 1177. 
So warn'd he them aware themfelres. 
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in a ftyle not inferior in dignity and 
elegance to Wirgil himfelf. Of thefe 
veries I have hazarded a tranflation in 
the notes, at Book i. Ver. 105, af the 
Battle of the Frogs and Mice, in my edi- 
tion of Pope’s Homer. 
how good, how fair, 
Anfwering his great idea. Ver. $57, 
This is alfo a beautiful Platonic fenti- 
ment. Plutarch, Vit. Lycurg. ‘p. 57. ¢. 
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