Chapter 19

[176]See his Note on the Place,℣595.[177]Æn. VIII. 630.[178]℣8.[179]L. IV.℣93.[180]Met. L. III.℣654.[181]Æn. L. IV.℣663.[182]℣456.[183]Lib. II. Epig. 58.[184]P. 56.[185]℣407.[186]Sat. III. 236.[187]Sat. X. 218.[188]℣387.[189]See, more especially, Mr.Waller's Poems.[190]Περι ὑψουϛ, § 32.[191]Ovid. Ep. IV. 1.[192]Metam. IX. 529.[193]Ep. XIX. 97.[194]Lib. II. Epist. 1.[195]Æn. XII. 435.[196]Lib. XI.℣419.[197]Geor. IV. 488.[198]℣354.[199]℣47.[200]Ovid. Ep. XV. 39.[201]Lib. de Spect. Epig. 3.[202]Ep. III. 7.[203]Lib. VIII. Epig. 19.[204]Andr. I. 3.[205]Sat. X. 122.[206]Metam. L. II.℣627.[207]De Art. Poet℣270.[208]Περι ὑψουϛ, § 35.[209]Lucret. Lib. I.℣73.[210]Æn. III. 571.[211]Æn. XII. 634.[212]℣861.[213]℣867.[214]De Art. Poet.℣9.[215]Vossius's Division is here hinted at, but, I think, not clearly express'd: Epigrams, says he, are twofold,1. When a Person, Fact, or Thing, is simply describ'd.2. When somewhat is inferr'd from what was laid down, whetherfrom its being greater, less, equal, or contrary.[216]Lib. I. Epig. 39.[217]Lib. I. Epig. 19.[218]Lib. III. Ep. 57.[219]Lib. IV. Ep. 18.[220]Thus applied, more out of Humour, than an ill Opinion of a certain Person's Success:Fortune, we yield to thy capricious Will:A Drop ofWard's can cure, a Drop of Water kill![221]Lib. VIII. Epig. 65.[222]Lib. V. Epig. 75.[223]This has since been done in a Book intituled,Carmina Quadragesimalia, printed atOxford1723, 8vo.reprinted atLondon1741, 12mo.[224]Toopoeticaloften in another Sense, when they give Characters absolutely false; from whence theFrenchhave a witty Saying,Il ment comme une Epitaphe, He lies like an Epitaph.[225]P. Bouhours, Entretiens d'Ariste & Eugene, Dial. ult.[226]Geor. IV. 6.[227]℣83.[228]Art. Poet.℣77.[229]L. I. Od. 33.[230]Ov. Amor. L. III. El. 9.[231]De Art. Poet. 75.[232]Amor. Lib. II. Eleg. 12.[233]Lib. I. Eleg. 9.[234]L. I. El. 9.[235]Amor. L. III. El. 1.[236]L. I. El. 3.[237]Amor. L. III. El. 8.[238]L. I. El. 3.[239]Eclog. X. 72.[240]Eclog. X. 17.[241]Eclog. II. 60.[242]Mr.Fontenelle, and Mr.Pope, in their Discourses on Pastoral Poetry, are ofScaliger's Opinion. But I might observe, in Favour of Dr.Trapp's, that the most ancientGreekPoets, whose Names are preserv'd, are not supposed to have been Pastoral Writers. TheGreeksseem to have been persuaded that their Hymns were the first Productions in Verse:SeeSpanheim's Notes onCallim.p. 2, 3,&c.[243]See Bull. Primitiv. & Apostol. Tradit. p. 20, 21.[244]Eclog. IV. 34.[245]℣44.[246]℣35.[247]Virg. Eclog. IV. 50.[248]VII. 1.[249]VIII. 37.[250]Eclog. II. 28.[251]Eclog. VII. 65.[252]℣59.[253]Met. L. I.℣415.[254]Lib. I. Ep. X. 21.[255]Lib. II. Sat. VI.℣56.[256]Eclog. X. 9.[257]A small Mistake, which, I suppose,Joannes Antonius Viperanusled our Author into, tho'Vossiusexpresly guards against it.Inter Latinos unum habemus Virgilium——quem liceat imitari, saysAnton. Viperanus; from whenceVossiusimagines he never saw those two Bucolic Writers, (which is more than his Words necessarily imply) and takes Care to let us know, we have four Eclogues ofNemesianus, and seven ofCalpurnius. Mr.Fontenellegives no disadvantageous Character of both of them, and, in some Particulars, prefersCalpurniustoVirgilhimself.Fabriciusmentions seven or eight Editions of these two Poets, and they may be seen in theCorpus Poetarum Latinorum, publish'd in our Author's Time.[258]Sat. XIV.℣47.[259]Hor. L. I.℣25.[260]Mr.Popehas since struck out a new Scheme of Ethic Poems, in which he has deserv'd as much of the Moral World, as SirIsaac Newtondid of the Natural.[261]Virg. Æn. L. I. 746. & Georg. II. 479, &c.[262]Georg. I. 86.[263]Lib. I.℣6.[264]Æn. VIII. 429.[265]Mus. Angl. Vol. I. & II.[266]Geor. II. 416.[267]Geor. I. 104.[268]℣111.[269]℣291.[270]℣155.[271]℣193.[272]℣125.[273]℣147.[274]Geor. III. 66.[275]Geor. I. 415.[276]Nemesianus'sCynegeticon, I suppose, is omitted, as being still of a later Age, tho' he had the good Fortune, asVossiusobserves, to be read in the Schools in the Time ofCharles the Great; and may still bear to be read in better Times than when Emperors could not write their own Name.[277]Boileau.[278]Earl ofRoscommon, and Mr.Pope.[279]Difficilia quæ Pulchra.[280]Geor. III. 8.[281]Hor. Carm. Lib. I. Od. 12.[282]Son ofSirach,Ecclusxliv, 5.[283]Deut.xv.[284]Lib. III. Od. 1.[285]Lib. I. Od. 3.[286]Lib. II. Od. 13.[287]Lib. III. Od. 29.[288]Lib. IV. Od. 2.[289]Mr.Edmund Smith, ofChrist-Church, Oxon.[290]Mus. Angl. Vol. II.[291]Hor. Lib I. Od. 32.[292]Lib. I. Od. 31.[293]Lib. I. Od. 1.[294]Henry Purcell.[295]Dr.Croft.[296]Art. Poet.℣83.[297]Lib. I. Od. 6.[298]Lib. III. Od. 3.[299]Lib. II. Od. 1.[300]Lib. III. Od. 4.[301]Lib. IV. Od. 4.[302]Lib. II. Od. 3.[303]Ibid.[304]Od. 14.[305]Od. 2.[306]Lib. II. Od. 16.[307]Casimir. Lib. I. Od. 1.[308]Ibid.[309]Od. 5.[310]Hor. Carmen Seculare.[311]De Art. Poet.℣220.[312]Instit. L. I. c. x.[313]L. I. Sat. X. 66.[314]Prafat. in Horatii Satiras, De Orig. & Progressu Satiræ Romanæ.[315]Mons.Dacier, who borrow'd the Observation fromIs. Casaubon, should have mention'd some Authority for this Expression ofLeges Saturæ; becauseVossius, who allows the like Use of the Word, yet questions the Grammarians in this Instance.Festuscites,Imperium, quod Plebes per saturam dederat, id abrogatum est. Again,Dein postero die, quasi per saturam sententiis exquisitis, in deditionem accipitur, "ubiper saturamvalet collectim ac raptim. At non video, saysVossius, ut hinc colligi possit, fuisse Romanis legem ullam, quæsaturadiceretur."[316]Sat. I. 85.[317]Lib. II. Epist. I.℣155.[318]Lib. I. Sat. II.℣62.[319]Casaubonexpresly says, thatHoraceimitatedLucilius; his Point was not to prove thatLucilius's Satires were of a different Kind fromHorace's, but fromEnnius's. Mons.Dacier, on the contrary, maintains, that the Satires ofHorace,Lucilius, andEnnius, were all of the same Species. And yet, I think, very hardly reconciles his Opinion with Antiquity. He producesQuintilian:Alterum illud & prius SatiræGENUS,quod non solum Carminum varietate mistum condidit Terentius Varro.Quintilian, says he, did not suppose thatVarroliv'd beforeLucilius: What then? why he imitatedEnnius's Satire, which wasalterum & priusGENUS, a different and priorKindto that ofLucilius.[320]Luciliusmade use, in the same Poem, of different Sort of Verses:Enniusof different Sort of Verses, but not in the same Poem:Varro, of Prose and Verse together:Horacekept to one Metre throughout his Satires.[321]Sat. X. 347.[322]℣363.[323]Sat. II. 61.[324]He says no more thanQuintilian, l. x. as cited before,Satira quidem tota nostra est; and evenHorace,Græcis intactum Carmen.[325]De Orig. & Progr. Satiræ Rom.[326]Hist. Poet. L. II. c. ix. p. 41.[327]℣225.[328]Instit. Poet. Lib. III. c. 9, 41.[329]Vossius's Opinion seems to be the Result of his Enquiry into the Original of Satire, which he observes to have arose out of the old Comedy. From whence he maintains, that the chearful bantering Humour should be still kept up, and not be forfeited for Moroseness: And for the same Reason, the Style should be near allied to Prose. In both which Particulars, and indeed in all the others which he mentions, he setsHoracefor an Example.[330]Sat. I.℣114.[331]P. 40.[332]Ibid.[333]Lib. I. Sat. IV.[334]P. 43.[335]P. 44.[336]Ibid.[337]I don't see hownihilo inornatawould make more forVossius's Sense. But do notHorace's Words imply, that a Writer of Satires shouldChieflyuse common Words, tho' he allows he is not always oblig'd to use no other? A common Style is the general Rule, tho' there may be some Exceptions to it.[338]P. 40, 41.

[176]See his Note on the Place,℣595.

[177]Æn. VIII. 630.

[178]℣8.

[179]L. IV.℣93.

[180]Met. L. III.℣654.

[181]Æn. L. IV.℣663.

[182]℣456.

[183]Lib. II. Epig. 58.

[184]P. 56.

[185]℣407.

[186]Sat. III. 236.

[187]Sat. X. 218.

[188]℣387.

[189]See, more especially, Mr.Waller's Poems.

[190]Περι ὑψουϛ, § 32.

[191]Ovid. Ep. IV. 1.

[192]Metam. IX. 529.

[193]Ep. XIX. 97.

[194]Lib. II. Epist. 1.

[195]Æn. XII. 435.

[196]Lib. XI.℣419.

[197]Geor. IV. 488.

[198]℣354.

[199]℣47.

[200]Ovid. Ep. XV. 39.

[201]Lib. de Spect. Epig. 3.

[202]Ep. III. 7.

[203]Lib. VIII. Epig. 19.

[204]Andr. I. 3.

[205]Sat. X. 122.

[206]Metam. L. II.℣627.

[207]De Art. Poet℣270.

[208]Περι ὑψουϛ, § 35.

[209]Lucret. Lib. I.℣73.

[210]Æn. III. 571.

[211]Æn. XII. 634.

[212]℣861.

[213]℣867.

[214]De Art. Poet.℣9.

[215]Vossius's Division is here hinted at, but, I think, not clearly express'd: Epigrams, says he, are twofold,1. When a Person, Fact, or Thing, is simply describ'd.2. When somewhat is inferr'd from what was laid down, whetherfrom its being greater, less, equal, or contrary.

[215]Vossius's Division is here hinted at, but, I think, not clearly express'd: Epigrams, says he, are twofold,

1. When a Person, Fact, or Thing, is simply describ'd.2. When somewhat is inferr'd from what was laid down, whetherfrom its being greater, less, equal, or contrary.

1. When a Person, Fact, or Thing, is simply describ'd.

2. When somewhat is inferr'd from what was laid down, whetherfrom its being greater, less, equal, or contrary.

[216]Lib. I. Epig. 39.

[217]Lib. I. Epig. 19.

[218]Lib. III. Ep. 57.

[219]Lib. IV. Ep. 18.

[220]Thus applied, more out of Humour, than an ill Opinion of a certain Person's Success:Fortune, we yield to thy capricious Will:A Drop ofWard's can cure, a Drop of Water kill!

[220]Thus applied, more out of Humour, than an ill Opinion of a certain Person's Success:

Fortune, we yield to thy capricious Will:A Drop ofWard's can cure, a Drop of Water kill!

[221]Lib. VIII. Epig. 65.

[222]Lib. V. Epig. 75.

[223]This has since been done in a Book intituled,Carmina Quadragesimalia, printed atOxford1723, 8vo.reprinted atLondon1741, 12mo.

[224]Toopoeticaloften in another Sense, when they give Characters absolutely false; from whence theFrenchhave a witty Saying,Il ment comme une Epitaphe, He lies like an Epitaph.

[225]P. Bouhours, Entretiens d'Ariste & Eugene, Dial. ult.

[226]Geor. IV. 6.

[227]℣83.

[228]Art. Poet.℣77.

[229]L. I. Od. 33.

[230]Ov. Amor. L. III. El. 9.

[231]De Art. Poet. 75.

[232]Amor. Lib. II. Eleg. 12.

[233]Lib. I. Eleg. 9.

[234]L. I. El. 9.

[235]Amor. L. III. El. 1.

[236]L. I. El. 3.

[237]Amor. L. III. El. 8.

[238]L. I. El. 3.

[239]Eclog. X. 72.

[240]Eclog. X. 17.

[241]Eclog. II. 60.

[242]Mr.Fontenelle, and Mr.Pope, in their Discourses on Pastoral Poetry, are ofScaliger's Opinion. But I might observe, in Favour of Dr.Trapp's, that the most ancientGreekPoets, whose Names are preserv'd, are not supposed to have been Pastoral Writers. TheGreeksseem to have been persuaded that their Hymns were the first Productions in Verse:SeeSpanheim's Notes onCallim.p. 2, 3,&c.

[243]See Bull. Primitiv. & Apostol. Tradit. p. 20, 21.

[244]Eclog. IV. 34.

[245]℣44.

[246]℣35.

[247]Virg. Eclog. IV. 50.

[248]VII. 1.

[249]VIII. 37.

[250]Eclog. II. 28.

[251]Eclog. VII. 65.

[252]℣59.

[253]Met. L. I.℣415.

[254]Lib. I. Ep. X. 21.

[255]Lib. II. Sat. VI.℣56.

[256]Eclog. X. 9.

[257]A small Mistake, which, I suppose,Joannes Antonius Viperanusled our Author into, tho'Vossiusexpresly guards against it.Inter Latinos unum habemus Virgilium——quem liceat imitari, saysAnton. Viperanus; from whenceVossiusimagines he never saw those two Bucolic Writers, (which is more than his Words necessarily imply) and takes Care to let us know, we have four Eclogues ofNemesianus, and seven ofCalpurnius. Mr.Fontenellegives no disadvantageous Character of both of them, and, in some Particulars, prefersCalpurniustoVirgilhimself.Fabriciusmentions seven or eight Editions of these two Poets, and they may be seen in theCorpus Poetarum Latinorum, publish'd in our Author's Time.

[258]Sat. XIV.℣47.

[259]Hor. L. I.℣25.

[260]Mr.Popehas since struck out a new Scheme of Ethic Poems, in which he has deserv'd as much of the Moral World, as SirIsaac Newtondid of the Natural.

[261]Virg. Æn. L. I. 746. & Georg. II. 479, &c.

[262]Georg. I. 86.

[263]Lib. I.℣6.

[264]Æn. VIII. 429.

[265]Mus. Angl. Vol. I. & II.

[266]Geor. II. 416.

[267]Geor. I. 104.

[268]℣111.

[269]℣291.

[270]℣155.

[271]℣193.

[272]℣125.

[273]℣147.

[274]Geor. III. 66.

[275]Geor. I. 415.

[276]Nemesianus'sCynegeticon, I suppose, is omitted, as being still of a later Age, tho' he had the good Fortune, asVossiusobserves, to be read in the Schools in the Time ofCharles the Great; and may still bear to be read in better Times than when Emperors could not write their own Name.

[277]Boileau.

[278]Earl ofRoscommon, and Mr.Pope.

[279]Difficilia quæ Pulchra.

[280]Geor. III. 8.

[281]Hor. Carm. Lib. I. Od. 12.

[282]Son ofSirach,Ecclusxliv, 5.

[283]Deut.xv.

[284]Lib. III. Od. 1.

[285]Lib. I. Od. 3.

[286]Lib. II. Od. 13.

[287]Lib. III. Od. 29.

[288]Lib. IV. Od. 2.

[289]Mr.Edmund Smith, ofChrist-Church, Oxon.

[290]Mus. Angl. Vol. II.

[291]Hor. Lib I. Od. 32.

[292]Lib. I. Od. 31.

[293]Lib. I. Od. 1.

[294]Henry Purcell.

[295]Dr.Croft.

[296]Art. Poet.℣83.

[297]Lib. I. Od. 6.

[298]Lib. III. Od. 3.

[299]Lib. II. Od. 1.

[300]Lib. III. Od. 4.

[301]Lib. IV. Od. 4.

[302]Lib. II. Od. 3.

[303]Ibid.

[304]Od. 14.

[305]Od. 2.

[306]Lib. II. Od. 16.

[307]Casimir. Lib. I. Od. 1.

[308]Ibid.

[309]Od. 5.

[310]Hor. Carmen Seculare.

[311]De Art. Poet.℣220.

[312]Instit. L. I. c. x.

[313]L. I. Sat. X. 66.

[314]Prafat. in Horatii Satiras, De Orig. & Progressu Satiræ Romanæ.

[315]Mons.Dacier, who borrow'd the Observation fromIs. Casaubon, should have mention'd some Authority for this Expression ofLeges Saturæ; becauseVossius, who allows the like Use of the Word, yet questions the Grammarians in this Instance.Festuscites,Imperium, quod Plebes per saturam dederat, id abrogatum est. Again,Dein postero die, quasi per saturam sententiis exquisitis, in deditionem accipitur, "ubiper saturamvalet collectim ac raptim. At non video, saysVossius, ut hinc colligi possit, fuisse Romanis legem ullam, quæsaturadiceretur."

[316]Sat. I. 85.

[317]Lib. II. Epist. I.℣155.

[318]Lib. I. Sat. II.℣62.

[319]Casaubonexpresly says, thatHoraceimitatedLucilius; his Point was not to prove thatLucilius's Satires were of a different Kind fromHorace's, but fromEnnius's. Mons.Dacier, on the contrary, maintains, that the Satires ofHorace,Lucilius, andEnnius, were all of the same Species. And yet, I think, very hardly reconciles his Opinion with Antiquity. He producesQuintilian:Alterum illud & prius SatiræGENUS,quod non solum Carminum varietate mistum condidit Terentius Varro.Quintilian, says he, did not suppose thatVarroliv'd beforeLucilius: What then? why he imitatedEnnius's Satire, which wasalterum & priusGENUS, a different and priorKindto that ofLucilius.

[320]Luciliusmade use, in the same Poem, of different Sort of Verses:Enniusof different Sort of Verses, but not in the same Poem:Varro, of Prose and Verse together:Horacekept to one Metre throughout his Satires.

[321]Sat. X. 347.

[322]℣363.

[323]Sat. II. 61.

[324]He says no more thanQuintilian, l. x. as cited before,Satira quidem tota nostra est; and evenHorace,Græcis intactum Carmen.

[325]De Orig. & Progr. Satiræ Rom.

[326]Hist. Poet. L. II. c. ix. p. 41.

[327]℣225.

[328]Instit. Poet. Lib. III. c. 9, 41.

[329]Vossius's Opinion seems to be the Result of his Enquiry into the Original of Satire, which he observes to have arose out of the old Comedy. From whence he maintains, that the chearful bantering Humour should be still kept up, and not be forfeited for Moroseness: And for the same Reason, the Style should be near allied to Prose. In both which Particulars, and indeed in all the others which he mentions, he setsHoracefor an Example.

[330]Sat. I.℣114.

[331]P. 40.

[332]Ibid.

[333]Lib. I. Sat. IV.

[334]P. 43.

[335]P. 44.

[336]Ibid.

[337]I don't see hownihilo inornatawould make more forVossius's Sense. But do notHorace's Words imply, that a Writer of Satires shouldChieflyuse common Words, tho' he allows he is not always oblig'd to use no other? A common Style is the general Rule, tho' there may be some Exceptions to it.

[338]P. 40, 41.

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