If her large front and neck vast strength denote; If on her knee the pendulous dewlap float; If curling horns their crescent inward bend, And bristly hairs beneath the ear defend; If lengthening flanks to bounding measure spread; If broad her foot and bold her bull-like head; If snowy spots her mottled body stain, And her indignant brow the yoke disdain, With tail wide-sweeping as she stalks the dews, Thus, lofty, large, and long, the mother choose. DRYDEN. Footnote 109: Georg. lib. iii. 51 and 79. Light on his airy crest his slender head, His belly short, his loins luxuriant spread; Muscle on muscle knots his brawny breast, &c. DRYDEN. Footnote 110: De Art. Poet. 16. Footnote 111: See Appendix, note 37. Footnote 112: See Appendix, note 38. Footnote 113: Gedanken über die Schönheit und über den Geschmack in der Malerei, p. 69. Footnote 114: Iliad v. 722. Footnote 115: Iliad xii. 296. Footnote 116: Dionysius Halicarnass. in Vita Homeri apud Th. Gale in Opusc. Mythol. p. 401. Footnote 117: See Appendix, note 39. Footnote 118: Æneid lib. viii. 447. Their artful hands a shield prepare. One stirs the fire, and one the bellows blows; The hissing steel is in the smithy drowned; The grot with beaten anvils groans around. By turns their arms advance in equal time, By turns their hands descend and hammers chime; They turn the glowing mass with crooked tongs. DRYDEN. Footnote 119: See Appendix, note 40. Footnote 120: Iliad xviii. 497–508. Meanwhile a multitude Was in the forum where a strife went on,— Two men contending for a fine, the price Of one who had been slain. Before the crowd One claimed that he had paid the fine, and one Denied that aught had been received, and both Called for the sentence which should end the strife. The people clamored for both sides, for both Had eager friends; the herald held the crowd In check; the elders, upon polished stones, Sat in a sacred circle. Each one took In turn a herald’s sceptre in his hand, And rising gave his sentence. In the midst Two talents lay in gold, to be the meed Of him whose juster judgment should prevail. BRYANT. Footnote 121: Iliad xviii. 509–540. Footnote 122: See Appendix, note 41. Footnote 123: Phocic. cap. xxv.-xxxi. Footnote 124: See Appendix, note 42. Footnote 125: Betrachtungen über die Malerei, p. 185. Footnote 126: Written in 1763. Footnote 127: