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2O FIGURES. Ch. XX.
ventures to animate the diamond, and doth it with
propriety ;
_—.That polilh’d bright
And all its native lustre let abroad ,
Dares, as it sparkles on the fair-one’s breast,
With vain ambition emulate her eyes.
But there are things familiar and base , to which
personisication cannot dcscend. In a composed state
of mind , to animate a lump of matter even in the
most rapid ssight of fancy , degenerates into bur-
lesque :
How now! What noise ! that spirit’s possessed with
hasse ,
That wounds th’ unresilling poflern with these strokes.
Shakjpeare, Measure for Meafure, a ci 4. fc. <?.
--Or from the sbore
The plovers when to scatter o’er the heath,
And sing their wild notes to the list’ning wajte.
Thomfon, Spring, I. a3.
Speaking of a man’s hand cut off in battle :
Te decisa suum , Laride, dcxtera qmerit,
Semianimesque micant digiti , ferrumqtie retra&ant.
^Sneid x 3g5.
The personisication here of a hand is insufferable ,
especiaily in a plain narration : not to mention that
such a trivial incident is too minutely described.
ventures to animate the diamond, and doth it with
propriety ;
_—.That polilh’d bright
And all its native lustre let abroad ,
Dares, as it sparkles on the fair-one’s breast,
With vain ambition emulate her eyes.
But there are things familiar and base , to which
personisication cannot dcscend. In a composed state
of mind , to animate a lump of matter even in the
most rapid ssight of fancy , degenerates into bur-
lesque :
How now! What noise ! that spirit’s possessed with
hasse ,
That wounds th’ unresilling poflern with these strokes.
Shakjpeare, Measure for Meafure, a ci 4. fc. <?.
--Or from the sbore
The plovers when to scatter o’er the heath,
And sing their wild notes to the list’ning wajte.
Thomfon, Spring, I. a3.
Speaking of a man’s hand cut off in battle :
Te decisa suum , Laride, dcxtera qmerit,
Semianimesque micant digiti , ferrumqtie retra&ant.
^Sneid x 3g5.
The personisication here of a hand is insufferable ,
especiaily in a plain narration : not to mention that
such a trivial incident is too minutely described.