Hæc conjuncta adeò totâ compage fatetur 190 Inde potestatum enasci densissima proles; Nam quodcunque ferit visum, tangive laborat, Quicquid nare bibis, vel concava concipit auris, Quicquid lingua sapit, credas hoc omne, necesse est Ponderibus, textu, discursu, mole, figurâ Particulas præstare leves, et semina rerum. Nunc oculos igitur pascunt, et luce ministrâ Fulgere cuncta vides, spargique coloribus orbem, V. 196. "Multorum semina rerum," Lucret. ii. 676. Luke. 195 V. 197. "Oculos qui pascere possunt," Lucr. ii. 419. Luke. "Consulit ardentes radios, et luce magistra," Claud. Cons. Honor. vi. 7. V. 198. "Grammatici veteres notaverunt à Virgilio et antiquioribus poetis, stridere in tertiâ conjugatione cum aliis verbis, ut fervere, fulgere esse usitatum; à Lucano autem, et Statio, et ejus ætatis poetis in secundâ." Vide Priscian. Col. 837. 866. 893. Dousam. ad Lucil. lib. ix. p. 119. N. Marcell. voce " fulgere," ed Mercer. Coripp. Laud. Justini, iii. 257. Virg. Georg. iv. 262. Æn. iv. 689. vii. 334. xii. 691. Lucan. ii. 250. vi. 179. ed. Oudendorp. Gesner, in a note to Claudian de Cons. Stilich. iii. 142, "Siculas obsident urbes," says, "Obsidere tertiâ conjugatione, nec optimos refugisse docent Thesauri nostri." It was on the authority of the use of these verbs in the third conjugation, that Vossius in his treatise "De Arte Grammatica," (lib. ii. p. 90), attempted to defend respondĕre in the well-known passage of Manilius, lib. v. 753, and that Scaliger and Bronkhusius read "Jam canis ætas mea caneret annis." v. Propert. El. ii. 14. 7. Dum de sole trahunt alias, aliasque supernè * 205 LIBER QUARTUS HACTENUS haud segnis Naturæ arcana retexi Musarum interpres, primusque Britanna per arva Romano liquidum deduxi flumine rivum. Cum Tu opere in medio, spes tanti et causa laboris, V. 200. "Faciunt ignem se vertere in auras," Lucret. i. 783. V. 207. " Sensiferos motus quæ dedit prima per artus," Lucre ii. 246. and iii. 937. "Longe ab sensiferis primordia motibus errant." V. 2. See Lucret. i. 95; iv. 5. And Columella de Cult. Hort. 435: Qui primus veteres ausus recludere fontes, Virg. Georg. ii. 175. And, iii. 12: Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas." And see note to Ennius, ed. Hesselii. p. 10. V. 8. Languescent lumina morte," Catull. Ixiv. 188. "Vultus amatos," Ov. Fast. vi. 579. Linquis, et æternam fati te condis in umbram! 5 At Tu, sancta anima, et nostri non indiga luctûs, Respectes, tenuesque vacet cognoscere curas; Incorrupta fides, nudaque veritas," V. 9. 66 Luke. V. 14. "Tecum etenim longos memini consumere soles," Pers. Sat. v. 41. Virg. Eclog. ix. 51. V. 17. "Questus ad nubila rumpit inanes," Claud. xxxv. "Questu volvebat inani," Ciris. v. 401. 249. V. 18. "Sancta ad vos anima," Virg. Æn. xii. 648. Opisque haud indiga nostræ," Georg. ii. 428. V. 21. Oh! sola infandos Troja miserata labores!" Æn. i. 597. "Tenuisque piget cognoscere curas," Georg. i. 177. V. 21, 66 Si quid pietas antiqua labores En. v. 688. Contemplere, metus, stimulosque cupidinis acres, * GREEK ΕPIGRAM. [See Mason's Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 45.] Αζόμενος πολύθηρον ἐκηβόλου ἄλσος ἀνάσσας, V. 24. Et stimulos acres sub pectore vertit," Æn. ix. 718. V. 29. “ Taliaque illacrymans mutæ jace verba faville,” Propert. Eleg. ii. i. 77. EXTRACTS. PETRARCA PART I. SONETTO 170. "Lasso ch' i' ardo, ed altri non mel crede;" &c. IMITATED. UROR, io; veros at nemo credidet ignes : Tam longas mentem flecteret ad lacrymas. Sed tamen has lacrymas, hunc tu, quem spreveris, ignem, Carminaque auctori non bene culta suo, Turba futurorum non ignorabit amantûm : 10 Nos duo, cumque erimus parvus uterque cinis, Jamque faces, eheu! oculorum, et frigida lingua, Hæ sine luce jacent, immemor illa loqui ; Infelix musa æternos spirabit amores, Ardebitque urnâ multa favilla meâ. 15 * Great judgment is evinced in the imitation of this sonnet in elegiac Propertian verse, and the substitution of the name of Cynthia, for the Laura of Petrarch, gives it an air of originality in the Latin language, and marks that propriety which distinguishes every composition of Mr. Gray. Mason. |