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Laws and Principles of Englith Proledy, 
and Diftin&ions of Verfe and Profle. 
" Le&: XX.—OF Defcriptive and Imita- 
tive Time with Iliuftrations from Mil- 
ton, Dryden, Pope, &c. and Strictures on 
the Criticifms of Dr. Johnfon. 
Le&. XXI.—Paules and Dwellings a 
the Voice ; with Defcriptive Definitions 
of the re(peétive Accents of Punétuation, 
Pronunciation. ‘ 
Le&. XXII.—General Principles of 
_ Pronunciation. Vindication.of the Maxim 
of Dr. Johnfon; with an Examination of 
the Objections of Mr. Walker, and other 
Ortboepitts. 
Le&. XXII, —Laws of, Quantity, 
Poife, Accent, and Percuffion ; Seat of 
the Perenffive Accent, and accompanying - 
InficGQiions—Acute, Grave, Circumfiec- 
tive and Continuous. 
Leet. XXIV. cling she DA la) Vul- 
garifms, Cockneyifms, Iricifms, Scotti- 
cifms. 
Lect. XXV.—Solecifins ; or authorized - 
and eftablifhed Incongruities: Mutation 
and Confufion of the Vowels ; curtailing 
the Diphthengs; Elifion, or Syncope of 
the Vowel. 
- Lect. XXVI.—Application of the pre- 
ceding Reafonings upon Eifion to the 
geading of Engli ith Ver: 3. with an Analyfis 
of the genuine Principles of Poetical 
Rhythmus. 
Lect. XXVIL.—OF Emphafes ; : 
Pofition, Characteriftic Varieties, 
Degrees. 
Endoroments and Accomplifoments indifpen. 
fable to the Higher Excellences of Elocu- 
ten, and more efpectally to the Formation 
of the Oratorical Charader. 
Lect. XKVILI.—Intellectual Requifites, 
and Preparatory Studies and Attainments. 
Leet. XXIX.—Exterior Accomplifh-_ 
ments and Accompaniments of Elocution- 
ary Delivery—Action, Attitude, &c. 
Lect. XXX.—Of the bolder and more 
Ympreflive Excellences of Oratorical Deli- 
very—Decorous Dignity, Dilcriminative 
Expreffion, Energy or Force, Emotion and 
Enthuhafm, &ec. 
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For the Mouthly Magazine. 
OBSERVATIONS om the NOTES fo 
~ HEYNE’s ViRGIL. (Continued from p. 
226 of the laft Number.) 
THE. ZENEID. 
Accipiunt inimicum imbrem. I. 423. 
. Ms ai is not here, by mere poetical 
licence, put for the fea-water, but has 
‘areference to the manner in which the 
Objervations on the Notes to Heynés Vi irgil, 
(Maza, 
water entered through the leaks’ 2 he 
veffels'in a Sbower : y 
Graviter commotus——~placidam caput. 
I. 226, 127.” 
Tf. he poet is here to he défended poly . 
an fl neers I conceive it mult be, by: 
fuppofing him to have confidered. Neptuag 
as the’ fea in the-firt claufe, and therefore 
moved or agitated by the natural effects of 
the frorm 5 but in he, fecoad, as the sod 
of the fea, preferving a confiant calin digs 
nity of demeanour. It may) be thus 
joined—sraviter commotus—fenfit emiyjam 
biemem, &c.—violentiy agitated, he was 
fenfible of the ftorm let loofe, &e. « « «4 
He Bh fee a ...fune terras ordine longo . 
Aut capere, aut captas jam defpettare videns 
tur. Di gage: 
After’a long difcuffion, Heyne explains 
Virgil’s meaning to be, that the fwans 
had either a€tually got to land, or were 
‘flying downwards to it,’ thus making 
the word captasa mere poetical ornament, 
or rather an unmeaning’ expletive. “But 
furely the words plainly imply two dé- 
grees or flages of a€tion, of which the fir 
is incomplete, and the /écond finifhed 5 
and the thing doizg cannot be more firong 
ly diftinguifbed from the thing done, than 
by the infinitive capere compared with 
the part: cipie and adverb jam coptas: ~ 
I imagine the fenfe to be very exactly 
what we fhould exprefs in Englihh by, 
‘‘ the birds are either making the land 
(i.e. fleering direétly towards it from 
fea), or are lookin g down upon the land - 
which they have made’ (arrived at). 
Vadimus immixti Danais haud numine noftro, 
HI. 396. 
Heyne explains baud aumine noftro, . by 
** the deities not being propitious to us; 
but this fenfe has nothing to do with the 
circumftance of the change of arms, with 
whicn the paflige is connected. If, there- 
fore, the right word be not moming 
(which, though it gives a good fenfe, 
would be profaic), the meaning of zumine. 
I think muft be much the fame as if jt 
were au/pice ;— 
vour or protection, but that derived from, 
our Grecian femblance.”’ 
1 wiwsians aide dareclaflibus auftros. III. 61. 
I perfectly agree with Heyne, that this 
_ isno example of that nonfenfical figure 
called by the grammarians dypallage, vite 
that it is put for dare claffes aufiris ; face 
ic is no more a deviation from plain lan- 
guage to expre(s the fimple idea of fetting 
fail, by “ giving the winds to the ficet,”” 
than by “* giving the fleet to ‘the winds,” 
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