"many countries, and reached their arms from "the Ocean to the Black-fea; this huge mafs " of ftone is foftened and difsolved as a ten"der cloud into rain. Here stood the African "mountains, and Atlas with his top above the "clouds; there was frozen Caucafus, and Tau66 rus, and Imaus, and the mountains of Afia: " and yonder, towards the north, ftood the Ripkaan hills, clothed in ice and fnow: all thefe "are vanifhed, dropt away as the fhow upon "their heads. Great and marvellous are thy "works; juft and true are thy ways, thou King of faints! Hallelujah.”

§ 3. Might I be permitted, without being thought too copious in the examples of the Hypotypofis, I would add the descriptions of a' country Life, from those two excellent lyric' Poets, HORACE and CASIMIRE; the first of whom defcribes the life of a country farmer;' the other, that of a man of piety and leisure.' I apprehend both the odes to be very beautiful in their kind; and with them I fhall conclude the inftances of the Hypotypofis, except what I' may think proper to felect from the facred Writings.

"Happy the man who, freed from care, "Such as our good forefathers were, "And from the curs'd anxiety

"That haunts a life of ufury,

"With his own oxen shares the toil

"In plowing his paternal foil:

"He

"He nor the martial trumpet hears, w
"Nor, the tumultuous ocean fears;
"Nor at the fenate-house attends,
"Nor at the great man's levee bends.
"But round the naked poplar twines.
"The pliant branches of his vines;
"Or prunes off each fuperfluous fhoot,
"That others may grow rich in fruit;
"Or in fequefter'd valleys fees
"His lowing cattle browse at eafe;
"Or of his honey ftores his ftock,
"Or clips the fleeces from his flock.
"He, when his brow the autumn rears,
"And crown'd with mellow fruits appears,
"Gathers his pears for winter's use,
"Which his ingrafted trees produce,
"Or his impurpled grapes that vie
"In colour with the Tyrian die;
"Whofe choice his willing hands prefent.
"In a devout acknowledgment

"To the kind Gods, that round his farm
"Patrol, and guard his grounds from harm.
"Thefe gifts, PRIAPUS, are thy due;
"SYLVANUS, these belong to you.
"Sometimes beneath th' embow'ring fhade
"Of oaks, or on the greenfward laid,
"He fees in lucid mazes glide
"The river's ftrong majestic tide;
"Or hears the birds with lab'ring throats
"Loud warbling in a thousand notes;
"Or fountains, that, in murmurs deep
"Wand'ring adown fome neighbouring steep,
"Lull him infenfibly to fleep.

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"But

"But when the year revers'd deforms
"The ground, convulfes heav'n with ftorms,
"Drenches the fields with flooding rains,
"Or heaps with fnow the barren plains,
"He with a cry of hounds befets

"The boars, and drives them on his nets;
"Or for devouring thrushes spreads
"The gin's attenuated threads;

"Or hitches in a stronger fnare

"The ftranger-crane and timʼrous hare,
"To dignify his homely board,
"And a voluptuous feaft afford.
"Who would not for fuch rural blifs
"For ever from his foul difmifs
"The care, that wild ambition breeds,
"Or what from lucre's luft proceeds?
"But richer bleffings crown his life,
"If he enjoys a faithful wife,
"Who wifely o'er his house prefides,
"And for his progeny provides :

(Such as adorn'd the Sabine name, "Or like APULIA's fwarthy dame) "Her hearth with faggots fhe will raife, "And set them in a towʼring blaze "Against her lord's return at night "To crown his labours with delight. "Or when the kine the meadows leave, "Careful the pens them up at eve, "And from their dugs diftended wide "Her pail receives the milky tide, "Whofe balmy draught, with what the vine "This year has giv'n in gen'rous wine, "And unbought dainties, which the field, The orchard, and the garden yield,

" Dreft

"Dreft by her cleanly hand, afford
"A pleasant banquet to her lord..
"To fhare in fuch a rich repaft,

"With me is equal to the tafte
"Of oyfters or of turbots rare,
"Or the high flavour of the char,
"That in the winter's thund'ring reign
"The tempeft drives into our main.
"No pheafant, and no Afric bird
"In luxury can be preferr'd
"To olives at the gath'ring time,
"And of the fruitful boughs the prime ;
"Or herbs that in the plains abound,
"Or in the filver brooks are found,
"And furnish'd with the double good
"Of wholfome phyfic, wholfome food;
"Or to the lamb, fuch as we flay
"Upon fome confecrated day;

"Or kid, which fome bold fhepherd draws
"From the wolf's difappointed jaws.
"Amidft his high delicious feaft,

"How are the yeoman's joys increas'd
"To fee his flocks from pafture come,
"Bleating for their nocturnal home;
"To fee his wearied oxen bear

"On their worn necks th' inverted share ;
"To fee his flaves, a cluft'ring swarm,
"Whofe faithful toils enrich his farm,

"At ease reclining round his hearth,
"While the Gods fmile, and fhare the mirth !”

Thus the fam'd griper ALPHIUS fung,

His heart confenting with his tongue,

And, quitting his ufurious plan,

Refolv'd to be a countryman,

The

The ides pour'd in his cash amain,
The kalends fent it out again *.

* Beatus ille qui procul negotiis
Ut prifca gens mortalium,
Paterna rura bobus exercet fuis,
Solutus omni fœnore:

Nec excitatur claffico miles truci,
Nec horret iratum mare:
Forumque vitat, & fuperba civium
Potentiorum limina.

Ergo aut adulta vitium propagine
Altas maritat populos;

Inutilefque falce ramos amputans,
Feliciores inferit:

Aut in reducta valle mugientium
Profpectat errantes greges;

Aut preffa puris mella condit amphoris,
Aut tondet infirmas oves.

Vel cum decorum mitibus pomis caput
Autumnus arvis extulit,
Ut gaudet infitiva decerpens pyra,
Certantem & uvam purpuræ.

Qua muneretur te, Priape, & te pater
Sylvane, tutor finium.

Libet jacere modo fub antiqua ilice;
Modo in tenaci gramine.
Labuntur altis interim ripis aquæ ;
Queruntur in fylvis aves;
Fontefque lymphis obftrepunt manantibus ;
Somnos quod invitet leves.

At cum tonantis annus hybernus Jovis

Imbres nivefque comparat;

Aut trudit acres hinc & hinc multa cane
Apros in obftantes plagas ;

Aut amite levi rara tendit retia,

Turdis edacibus dolos:

Pavidumque leporem, & advenam laqueo gruem,

Jucunda captat præmia.