Inftructs the Fowls of Heav'n; and thro' their Breafts And unremitting Energy, pervades, Spring, ver. 796. And thus the Perpetuity, and Unchangeableness of the Heavenly Bodies-- WITH what a perfect World-revolving Power Summer, ver. 32. His next is on the Virtues of Herbs-- THEN fpring the living Herbs, profufely wild Of Life, and Health, and Joy? The Food of Man A Length of golden Years, unfiefh'd in Blood, A Stranger A Stranger to the favage Arts of Life, Death, Rapine, Carnage, Surfeit, and Disease, Spring, ver. 247. Another in Laudem Diluculi --- And is there ought in Sleep can charm the Wife? The fleeting Moments of too short a Life? Wilder'd, and toffing thro' distemper'd Dreams? Summer, ver. 66. His next to prefumptuous Infidels --AND lives the Man, whofe Universal Eye Has fwept at once th' unbounded Scheme of Things; Mark'd their Dependance fo, and firm Accord, As with unfaultering Accent to conclude That This availeth nought? Has any feen The mighty Chain of Beings? Summer, ver. 296. The laft a ferious Contemplation in a gloomy Winter's Night -- AS yet'tis And And now ye lying Vanities of Life! Ye ever-tempting, ever-cheating Train! Winter, ver. 191. IN SECTION XIX. which, thro' the Injury' of Time, is, as many of the rest are, imperfect, LONGINUS fhews, That as ASYNDETONS raife, fo in SECTION XXI, that POLYSYNDETONS or Copulatives enervate Stile. See both thefe Figures in Book I. The two Afyndetons following are Mr. THOMSON's. tors The firft, the Pleasure of Faithful Precep WHEN infant Reafon grows apace-it calls Го pour the fresh Inftruction o'er the Mind, To breathe th' infpiring Spirit, to implant The generous Purpofe in the glowing Breaft. OBS. XXI. Spring, ver. 1067. ANNOTATION S. ERE's the whole Leaves are fuppos'd to H fourth great be wanting. Gap in the MSS. where two The The other a Midfummer Rapture --WELCOME, ye Shades! ye bowery Thickets, bail! Ye lofty Pines! ye venerable Oaks ! Ye Afbes wild, refounding o'er the Steep! Summer, ver. 392. IN SECTION XX. he fhews that a Complication of Figures makes a lively Impreffion on the Mind, and gives an Inftance from Demofthenes of a beautiful Congeries of ANAPHORA, DIATYPOSIS, and ASYNDETON. All which fee in Book I. Claufes ANAPHORA begins alike. DIATYPOSIS paints Things to the Life. ASYNDETON drops AND thro' Hafte or Paffion. My Inftance of the Complication of all these three Figures from Mr.THOMSON is an Addrefs to the Ladies to diffuade 'em from Hunting BUT if the rougher Sex by this fierce Sport To Spring the Fence, to rein the prancing Steed, Know Know they to feize the captivated Soul To make well-order'd Home Man's best Delight; This be the Female Dignity and Praise. Autumn, ver. 564. I am, SIR, Your's, &c. LETTER VIII. SIR, IN Holt, July 17. N SECTION XXII. our excellent Critic treats of HYPERBATON (which fee in Book I.) a Figure which is thus prais'd and defcrib'd by HORA CE-- Ordinis hæc Virtus erit, & Venus (aut ego fallor) Art. Poet. ver. 42. VIRGIL and MILTON, not only in their Diction but in their Plans of their feveral Poems, have obferved it; the first beginning his Æneid G with |