Udam Spernit humum fugiente pennâ. V. 430. Over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight. CICERO DE NAT. DEOR. II. 49. Pennis cursus avium levatur. Book VIII. 221. Speaking or mute all comeliness and grace Attend thee, and each word each motion forms. TIBULL. Illam quicquid agit, quoquo vestigia vertit Componit furtim subsequiturque decor. V. 316. Whom thou soughtst, I am. VIRG. ÆN. I. 599. Coram quem quæritus, adsum. V. 430. Canst raise thy creature to what height thou wilt. HOR. OD. I. 35. 2. Præsens vel imo tollere de gradu Mortale corpus. V. 513. The earth Gave sign of gratulation. VIRG. ÆN. IV. 166. Tellus et pronuba Juno Dant signum. V. 606. More grateful than harmonious sound to th’ ear. HOR. SAT. II. 5. 93. Carmine gratior aurem Occupat humanam. Book XI. v. 505. Would either not accept Life offered, or soon beg to lay it down. GR. EPIG. Τοινδε δυοιν ἑνος ἁιρεσις, η το γενεσθαι Μηδεποτ’ η το θανειν αυτικα τικτομενον. V. 657. Others from the wall defend With dart and javelin, stones. VIRG. ÆN. X. 130. Hi jaculis, illi certant defendere saxis. We could subjoin many other instances, but these may suffice to prove, that he who marked them was not confined to a very circumscribed path of reading. There are, however, some imitations by Pope, which appear worth preserving. PROLOGUE TO SAT. Pretty in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms, The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they came there. MARTIAL. VI. 15. Dum Phaetonteâ formica vagatur in umbrâ Implicuit tenuem succina gutta feram, Sic modo quæ fuerat vitâ contempta manente, Funeribus facta est nunc pretiosa suis. ESSAY ON MAN, B. IV. Or why so long, if long in life can be, Lent heaven a parent to the poor and me. VIRG. ÆN. X. 861 Phœbe diu, res si qua diu mortalibus ulla est Viximus. MORAL ESSAYS, II. Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air, Chuse a firm cloud, before it fall and in it Catch e’er she change this Cynthia of the minute. COWLEY’S DAVID. He took for skin a cloud most soft and bright, Of a new rainbow ere it fret or fade, The choicest there cut out. MORAL ESSAYS, III. Nature, as in duty bound, Deep hid this shining mischief under ground, But when by man’s audacious labour won, Flamed forth this rival to its sire the sun. COWLEY’S DAVID. Where the sun’s fruitful beams give metals birth, Where he the growth of fatal gold does see, Gold which alone more influence has than he. DUNCIAD, Book IV. Tis true on words is still our whole debate, Dispute of me or te, of aut or at. GR. EPIG. IN ATHEN. Lib. V.