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2g FIGURES. Ch. XX.
Un fo'i rernpli d’erreurs , que le trouble accompagne
Et maiade a la vjlle ainli qu’ a la campagne ,
Eii vain monte acheval pour tromper son ennui ,
Le Chagrin monte en croupe. Sc galope avec lui.
A poet, in a short and lively expression, may anir
mate his muse , his genius , and even his verse :
but to animate his verse, and to address a whole
epistle to it, as Boileau doth5, is in supportable.
The following passage is not less faulty :
Her fate is whisper’d by the gentle breeze ,
And told in sighs to all the trembling trees ;
The trembling trees , in ev’ry plain and wood.
Her fate remurmur to the {liver ssood ;
The silver ssood, so lately calm, appears
Swell’d with new passion, and o’erssows with tears ;
The winds , and trees, and ssoods, her death deplore,
Daphnp , our grief! our glory ! now no more.
Pope's Pajlorals , iy. 61,
Let grief or love have the power to animate the
winds, the trees , the floods , provided the figure
be dispatched in a single expression : even in that
case, the sigure seldom has a good effect ; because
grief or love of the pastoral kind ; are causes ra-
ther too faint for so violent an elfect as imagining
the winds, trees, or floods, to be sensible beings.
But when this figure is deliberately spread out,
* Epistle io.
Un fo'i rernpli d’erreurs , que le trouble accompagne
Et maiade a la vjlle ainli qu’ a la campagne ,
Eii vain monte acheval pour tromper son ennui ,
Le Chagrin monte en croupe. Sc galope avec lui.
A poet, in a short and lively expression, may anir
mate his muse , his genius , and even his verse :
but to animate his verse, and to address a whole
epistle to it, as Boileau doth5, is in supportable.
The following passage is not less faulty :
Her fate is whisper’d by the gentle breeze ,
And told in sighs to all the trembling trees ;
The trembling trees , in ev’ry plain and wood.
Her fate remurmur to the {liver ssood ;
The silver ssood, so lately calm, appears
Swell’d with new passion, and o’erssows with tears ;
The winds , and trees, and ssoods, her death deplore,
Daphnp , our grief! our glory ! now no more.
Pope's Pajlorals , iy. 61,
Let grief or love have the power to animate the
winds, the trees , the floods , provided the figure
be dispatched in a single expression : even in that
case, the sigure seldom has a good effect ; because
grief or love of the pastoral kind ; are causes ra-
ther too faint for so violent an elfect as imagining
the winds, trees, or floods, to be sensible beings.
But when this figure is deliberately spread out,
* Epistle io.