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9!2 FIGURES. Cli. XX.
Averts her blulhful face , and earth and Ikies
Allsmiling, to his hot dominion leaves.
Summer, I, r.
See Wzn/erVonies , to rule the vary’d year.
Sullen and sad with all his riling train ,
Vapours , and clouds, and Jtorms.
Winter, I. i.
This has violently the air of writing mechanically
without taste. It is not natural that the imagi-
nation of a writer fliould be so much heated at the
very commencement; and, atanyrate, he can-
not expess: silch dussility in his readers. But if
this practice can be justified by authority, Thom-
son has one of no mean note: Vida begins his first
eclogue in the following words :
Dicite, vos Mufe, Scjuvenum memorate querelas;
Dicite ; nam motas ipsas ad carmina cartes
Et requiesse suos perhibent vaga flumina cursus.
Even Shakspeare is not always careful to prepare
the mind for this bold figure. Take the following
instance
---—-——-Upon these taxations,
The clothiers all, not able to maintain
The many to them longing,, have put off
The spinslers, carders, fullers , weavers ; who t
Unfit for other life , compell’d by hunger.
And lack of other means, in desp’rate manner
Averts her blulhful face , and earth and Ikies
Allsmiling, to his hot dominion leaves.
Summer, I, r.
See Wzn/erVonies , to rule the vary’d year.
Sullen and sad with all his riling train ,
Vapours , and clouds, and Jtorms.
Winter, I. i.
This has violently the air of writing mechanically
without taste. It is not natural that the imagi-
nation of a writer fliould be so much heated at the
very commencement; and, atanyrate, he can-
not expess: silch dussility in his readers. But if
this practice can be justified by authority, Thom-
son has one of no mean note: Vida begins his first
eclogue in the following words :
Dicite, vos Mufe, Scjuvenum memorate querelas;
Dicite ; nam motas ipsas ad carmina cartes
Et requiesse suos perhibent vaga flumina cursus.
Even Shakspeare is not always careful to prepare
the mind for this bold figure. Take the following
instance
---—-——-Upon these taxations,
The clothiers all, not able to maintain
The many to them longing,, have put off
The spinslers, carders, fullers , weavers ; who t
Unfit for other life , compell’d by hunger.
And lack of other means, in desp’rate manner