Kames, Henry Home: Elements Of Criticism (Vol. 2) (Basil: Printed and sold by J. J. Tourneisen, 1795) [VD18 90784596]

566 COMPARISONS. Ch. XIX.
lv inferior. This will be evident from the follow*
ing companions.
Fervet opus, redolentque thymo fragrantia mella,
Ac veluti lends Cyclopes fuliiiina massis
Cura, properant alii taurinis fbllibus auras
Accipiunt, redduntque : alii stridentia tingunt
/Era lacu : gemit impositis incudibus .Etna :
Illi inter sese magna vi brachia tollunt
In nurnerum ; versantque tenaci forcipe serrum.
Non aliter (st parva licet componere magnis)
Cecropias innatus apes amor urget habendi,
Munere quamque suo. Grandsevis oppida curx,
Et munire favos , 8c Dredala hngere tetsra.
At fessaa multa referunt se node minores,
Crura thymo plense : pascuntur Sc arbuta passim,
Et glaucas salices, caliamque crocumque rubentera ,
Et pinguem tiliam , ScTerrugineos hyacinthos.
Omnibus una quies operum , labor omnibus unus.
Giorgic^ iv. 6g.
The Cyclopes make abetter figure in the fol-
lowing simile :
——The Thracian leader prest, '
With eager courage , far before the rest ;
Him Ajax met, inssam’d with equal rage:
Between the wond’ring hosts the chiefs engage ;
Their weighty weapons round their heads they throw ,
And fwift, and heavy, falls each thund ring blow.
As when in .Etna’s caves the giant brood ,
The one-ev’d servants of the Lemnian god ,
lii order round the burning anvil hand ,
And forge , with weighty strokes, the forked brand ;