Principio, ut magnum fœdus Natura creatrix Nec per se proprium passa exercere vigorem est, Ad superas hominis sedes, arcemque cerebri. Namque illic posuit solium, et sua templa sacravit NOTES. 35 40 45 Ver. 31. Aurea Musa] "At non Venus aurea contra," Virg. Æn. x. 16. te fruitur credulus aurea," Hor. Od. I. v.9. Ver. 32. Natura] "Rerum natura creatrix," Lucret. i. 623. “Qui nunc Ver. 35. Torpere] "Nec torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno," Virg. Georg. i. 124. Ver. 45. Plagis] "Sequenti concita plaga," Lucret. iv. 189. "Externis plagis," Ibid. ii. 1140. Mens animi: hanc circum coëunt, densoque feruntur Ac uti longinquis descendunt montibus amnes Haud aliter species properant se inferre novellæ 50 55 60 Ver. 51. Tenuia] So Lucretius, iii. 244 : "Qua nec mobilius quidquam neque tenuius exstat." And Virg. Georg. i. 398: "Tenuia nec lanæ per cœlum vellera ferri.” Ver. 51. Rerum] "Rerum simulachra ferantur," Lucret. iv. 165. " commercia mundo," Claud. xxxiii. 91. Geminoque facis Ver. 59. Oceanus] "Te tuus Oceanus natali gurgite lassum Excipit,” Claud. vii. 176. Ver. 60. Dona]" Dona recognoscit populorum," Virg. Æn. viii. 721. Ver. 61. Diffuso] "Diffuso lumine ridet," Lucret. iii. 22. Primas tactus agit partes, primusque minutæ 65 70 Circumfusus adhuc: tactus tamen aura lacessit Idque magis simul, ac solitum blandumque calorem 75 Frigore mutavit cœli, quod verberat acri Impete inassuetos artus: tum sævior adstat Humanæque comes vitæ Dolor excipit; ille Cunctantem frustrà et tremulo multa ore querentem 80 NOTES. Ver. 69. Latè per stamina] So Pope's Essay on Man, i. 217: "The spider's touch, so exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." Ver. 70. Puer] "Tum porro puer.- Nixibus ex alvo matris natura profudit," Lucret. "Cum veteres ponunt tunicas," Ibid. iv. 56. v. 223. Ver. 80. Amplectitur] "Cupidisque amplectitur ulnis," Ovid. Met. xi. 63. Ver. 81. Species] "Nam simul ac species patefacta est verna diei!" Lucret. i. x. VOL. I. 2 H Carmine quo, Dea, te dicam, gratissima cœli Ver. 88. Purpureum] "Hic Ver purpureum," Virg. Eclog. ix. 41. "Quove color? decens Quo motus?" Hor. Od. IV. xiii. 17. Ver. 92. Caput] "Invisum hoc detrude caput sub Tartara," Æn. ix. 476. "Stygis tenebris," Georg. iii. 551. Ver. 93. Horrendæque] "Subit horrida mentem formido," Sil. Ital. x. 544; Lucret. vi. 253. "Curarum fluctuat æstu," Virg. Æn. viii. 19. Ver. 96. Arridet largis] " Improviso vibratus ab Æthere fulgor," Virg. Æn. viii. 524. Omnia nec tu ideò invalidæ se pandere Menti Extemplo hùc obverti aciem, quæ fixa repertos 100 105 Addita, Judicioque arctè connexa potestas, 110 Quod simul atque ætas volventibus auxerit annis, Perspiciet, vis quanta loci, quid polleat ordo, Juncturæ quis honos, ut res accendere rebus Lumina conjurant inter se, et mutua fulgent. 115 Nec minor in geminis viget auribus insita virtus, Scilicet Eloquio hæc sonitus, hæc fulminis alas, NOTES. 120 Ver. 102. Nescio] "Nescio qua præter solitum dulcedine læti," Virg. Georg. i. 413. Ver. 104. Inserta] "Plena per insertas fundebat luna fenestras," Virg. Æn. iii. 152. Ver. 105. Tela] "Lucida tela diei," Lucret. i. 128. Ver. 108. Haurit] " Expleri mentem nequit, ardescitque tuendo," Virg. Æn. i. 713. Ver. 113. Polleat] "Tantum series, juncturaque pollet," Horat. Art. Poet. 242. "Ita res accendent lumina rebus," Lucret. i. 1110. Ver. 119. Invecta] "Puniceis invecta rotis," Virg. Æn. xii. 77. |