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Se&. I. FIGURES. 97
Dolcemente chinando,
Di modesto rossor tutta sl tinse ,
E mostro ben, che non men bella e dentro
Di quel che lia di fuori ;
O fosse, che’l bel volto
Avesse invidia all’ onorata bocca,
■ E s’adornasse an ch’ egli
Della purpurea sua pomposa vesta ,
Quali volesse dir, son bello anch’io.
Paftor Fido a El 2. fc. x.
Fifthly , The enthuliasm of passion may have
the effess to prolong pashonate personification:
but descriptive personifica'aon cannot be dispatch-
ed in too few words : a circumstantiate descrip-
tion dilsolves the charm, and makes the attempt
to personify appear ridiculous. Homer succeeds
in animating his darts and arrows : but such per-
sonification spun out in a French translation , is
mere burlesque :
Et la fleche en furie , avide de son sang,
Part, vole a lui, 1’atteint, fc lui perce le ssanc.
Horace says happily ,
Poll equitem sedet atra G'ura. «
Observe how this thought degenerates by being
divided, like the former, into a number of mi-
nute parts :
Dolcemente chinando,
Di modesto rossor tutta sl tinse ,
E mostro ben, che non men bella e dentro
Di quel che lia di fuori ;
O fosse, che’l bel volto
Avesse invidia all’ onorata bocca,
■ E s’adornasse an ch’ egli
Della purpurea sua pomposa vesta ,
Quali volesse dir, son bello anch’io.
Paftor Fido a El 2. fc. x.
Fifthly , The enthuliasm of passion may have
the effess to prolong pashonate personification:
but descriptive personifica'aon cannot be dispatch-
ed in too few words : a circumstantiate descrip-
tion dilsolves the charm, and makes the attempt
to personify appear ridiculous. Homer succeeds
in animating his darts and arrows : but such per-
sonification spun out in a French translation , is
mere burlesque :
Et la fleche en furie , avide de son sang,
Part, vole a lui, 1’atteint, fc lui perce le ssanc.
Horace says happily ,
Poll equitem sedet atra G'ura. «
Observe how this thought degenerates by being
divided, like the former, into a number of mi-
nute parts :