[Footnote 76: In the midst of the Temple, nearest the throne of Fame, are placed the greatest names in learning of all antiquity. These are described in such attitudes as express their different characters. The columns on which they are raised are adorned with sculptures, taken from the most striking subjects of their works, which sculpture bears a resemblance, in its manner and character, to the manner and character of their writings.--POPE. This was a trite device, and is poorly applied in the present instance. "The manner and character of the writings" of Homer, Virgil, Pindar, Horace, Aristotle, and Cicero could hardly have been described in a vaguer and more common-place way.] [Footnote 77: From the dees many a pillere, Of metal that shone not full clere, &c. Upon a pillere saw I stonde That was of lede and iron fine, Him of the sect Saturnine, The Ebraike Josephus the old, &c. Upon an iron piller strong, That painted was all endelong, With tigers' blood in every place, The Tholosan that highte Stace, That bare of Thebes up the fame, &c.--POPE.] [Footnote 78: Full wonder hye on a pillere Of iron, he the great Omer, And with him Dares and Titus, &c.--POPE.] [Footnote 79: Pope has selected from Homer only three subjects as the most interesting: Diomed wounding Venus, Hector slaying Patroclus, and the same Hector dragged along at the wheels of Achilles' chariot. Are these the most affecting and striking incidents of the Iliad? But it is highly worth remarking, that this very incident of dragging the body of Hector thrice round the walls of Troy, is absolutely not mentioned by Homer. Heyne thinks that Virgil, for he first mentioned it, adopted the circumstance from some Greek tragedy on the subject.--WARTON.] [Footnote 80: There saw I stand on a pillere That was of tinned iron cleere, The Latin poete Virgyle, That hath bore up of a great while The fame of pious Æneas. And next him on a pillere was Of copper, Venus' clerk Ovide, That hath y-sowen wondrous wide The great God of Love's name-- Tho saw I on a pillere by Of iron wrought full sternely, The greate poet Dan Lucan, That on his shoulders bore up than As high as that I mighte see, The fame of Julius and Pompee. And next him on a pillere stoode Of sulphur, like as he were woode, Dan Claudian, sothe for to tell, That bare up all the fame of hell, &c.--POPE.