135

Vere novo exhalat, Floræve quod oscula fragrant,
Roscida, cum Zephyri furtìm sub vesperis horâ
Respondet votis, mollemque aspirat amorem.
Tot portas altæ capitis circumdedit arci
Alma Parens, sensusque vias per membra reclusit;
Haud solas namque intùs agit vivata facultas,
Quâ sese explorat, contemplatusque repentè
Ipse suas animus vires, momentaque cernit.
Quid velit, aut possit, cupiat, fugiatve, vicissìm
Percipit imperio gaudens; neque corpora fallunt
Morigera ad celeres actus, ac numina mentis.

Qualis Hamadryadum quondam si fortè sororum
Una, novos peragrans saltus, et devia rura;
(Atque illam in viridi suadet procumbere ripâ
Fontis pura quies, et opaci frigoris umbra)
Dum prona in latices speculi de margine pendet,
Mirata est subitam venienti occurrere Nympham:
Mox eosdem, quos ipsa, artus, eadem ora gerentem
Unà inferre gradus, unà succedere sylvæ
Aspicit alludens; seseque agnoscit in undis.
Sic sensu interno rerum simulacra suarum

150

V. 132. Compare Par. Lost, b. v. 16: "Then with voice, mild as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes." Virg. Georg. i. 43, 'Vere novo gelidus canis cum montibus humor." Luke.

"Di

V. 134. "Votis respondet avari," Georg. i. 47. vinum adspirat amorem," Virg. Æn. viii. 373. V. 137. "Vivata potestas," Lucret. iii. 410. 557. 680.

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Mens ciet, et propri
Nec verò simplex
Constat imaginibus

Hæ privos servant
Passim, quà data

quant.
Respice, cui à cur
Sæva et in eterna
Illi ignota dies lu
Offusus nitor est,
Corporis at filum
Intervalla datur
Quandoquidem H
Exclusæque ocu
Per digitos. A
Luminibus blan
Undique pro
Notitia campu
Turba volupta
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ympharum in speculo," Phædrus, i. iv. 3. e same synæresis is found in Propert. iv.

habuit secum, quibus est elata capillos." - oculos; lateri vestis adusta fuit."

Tec ratio solis simplex," Lucret. v. 613. "Con. 108. "Privas aures," iv. 570.

g. En. i. 83. " Qua data porta ruunt." Luke.

Ea gratia formæ," Ovid. Met. vii. 44.
Radios inter quasi rumpere lucis," Lucret. v.
is ardentem lucis," Virg. Æn. vii. 142.
Tribiles visu formæ," En. vi. 277.

Quo facere et fungi, quo res existere circùm
Quamque sibi proprio cum corpore scimus, et ire
Ordine, perpetuoque per ævum flumine labi.

175

180

Nunc age quo valeat pacto, quâ sensilis arte
Affectare viam, atque animi tentare latebras
Materies (dictis aures adverte faventes)
Exsequar. Imprimis spatii quam multa per æquor
Millia multigenis pandant se corpora seclis,
Expende. Haud unum invenies, quod mente licebit
Amplecti, nedum propriùs deprendere sensu,
Molis egens certæ, aut solido sine robore, cujus
Denique mobilitas linquit, texturave partes,
Ulla nec orarum circumcæsura coërcet.

18

Lucret. v. 1215.

V. 177. " Viamque adfectat Olympo," Georg. iv. 562. "Tentare latebras," Æn. ii. 38.

V. 185. "Extima membrorum circumcæsura coercet,"

Lucret. iv. 651.

Virg. Georg. i. 463.

V. 190. "At si tantula pars oculi media illa peresa est,
Incolumis quamvis alioqui splendidus orbis.”
Lucret. iii. 415.

V. 191. "Densior hinc soboles," Virg. Georg. iii. 308. V. 192. "Quæ feriunt oculorum acies, visumque lacessant," Lucret. iv. 329.

V. 193. "Nare bibis." Is this expression warranted by the authority of any of the Latin poets? Horace bas Bibit aure," Od. ii. xiii. 32.; and Statius, in Ach. ii. 120, 66 Aure bibentem." "Naso videt," Plautius. See Martini. Var. Lect. p. 10. Shakespeare transfers the same word to sight: "And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send," Cymbel. act i. sc. 2. And Thomson. Spring, 106: "Or taste the smell of dairy." 'Elapsusque cavá fingitur aure lapis," Ov. Art. Am. i. 432.

66

lit ardentes radios, et luce magistra,"

Claud. Cons. Honor. vi. 7. Trammatici veteres notaverunt à Virgilio et oetis, stridere in tertiâ conjugatione cum fervere, fulgere esse usitatum; à Lucano o, et ejus ætatis poetis in secundâ." Vide 837.866. 893. Dousam. ad Lucil. lib. ix. arcell. voce 66 fulgere," ed Mercer. Coripp. ii. 257. Virg. Georg. iv. 262. Æn. iv. 689. 1. Lucan. ii. 250. vi. 179. ed. Oudendorp. ote to Claudian de Cons. Stilich. iii. 142,

ent urbes," says, "Obsidere tertiâ conjuganos refugisse docent Thesauri nostri." It hority of the use of these verbs in the third at Vossius in his treatise De Arte Grami. p. 90), attempted to defend respondere in I passage of Manilius, lib. v. 753, and that ronkhusius read "Jam canis ætas mea caPropert. El. ii. 14. 7.

Dum de sole trahunt alias, aliasque supernè
Detorquent, retròque docent se vertere flammas.
Nunc trepido inter se fervent corpuscula pulsu,
Ut tremor æthera per magnum, latèque natantes
Aurarum fluctus avidi vibrantia claustra
Auditûs queat allabi, sonitumque propaget.
Cominùs interdum non ullo interprete per se
Nervorum invadunt teneras quatientia fibras,
Sensiferumque urgent ultrò per viscera motum.

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205

HACTENUS haud segnis Naturæ arcana retexi
Musarum interpres, primusque Britanna per arva
Romano liquidum deduxi flumine rivum.

Cum Tu opere in medio, spes tanti et causa laboris,

V. 200. "Faciunt ignem se vertere in auras,"

Lucret. i. 783.

V. 207. "Sensiferos motus quæ dedit prima per artus," Lucre ii. 246. and iii. 937. "Longe ab sensiferis primordia motibus errant."

V. 2. See Lucret. i. 95;-iv. 5. And Columella de Cult. Hort. 435:

Qui primus veteres ausus recludere fontes,
Ascræum cecinit Romana per oppida carmen.'

Virg. Georg. ii. 175. And, iii. 12:

10.

"Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas." And see note to Ennius, ed. Hesselii. P.

V. 8. "Languescent lumina morte," Catull. lxiv. 188.

"Vultus amatos," Ov. Fast. vi. 579.