30 35 Leni, sub aura, flainine: Bilemque, et irritas minas: Subitoque ad iras percita ? Mors atra Noctis filia, Vastove nata sub Chao: Messes ubique colligit; In lucem et auras evocat; Themidos Jovisque filiæ; At justa raptat impios Sedesque subterraneas. Fædum reliqui carcerem, Ad astra sublimis feror: Auriga currus ignei. Sarraca tarda frigore, aut Non ensis Orion tuus. 40 45 50 40. Orpheus, Hymn. See also Hesiod's Theogony. And Ovid, Metam. ii. 118. Fast. i. 125. Z VOL. IV. 55 60 Prætervolavi fulgidi solis globum, Longeque sub pedibus deam Frænis dracones aureis. Per lacteas vehor plagas, Donec nitentes ad fores Stratum smaragdis atrium. Oriundus humano patre, Sat est in æternum frui. 65 Naturam non pati senium.* Heu, quam perpetuis erroribus acta fatiscit Avi mens hominum, tenebrisque immersa profundis, was 58. Frænis dracones aureis.] tions in romances. By the way, See Il Pens. v. 59. this sort of imagery, so much 62. Donec nitentes ad fores, admired in Milton, appears to &c.] Milton's natural disposition, me to be much more practicable so conspicuous in the Paradise than many readers seem to supLost, and even in his Prose pose. Works, for describing divine 63. See notes on Par. L. ii). objects, such as the bliss of the 482. saints, the splendour of heaven, and the music of the angels, is This an academical perpetually breaking forth in exercise, written in 1628, to of the earliest of his oblige one of the Fellows of juvenile poems. And here more Christ's college. “Quidam ædium particularly in displaying the “ nostrarum Socius, qui Comitiis glories of heaven, which he or hisce academicis in Disputalocally represents, and clothes « tione philosophica responsurus with the brightest material de- “ erat, carmina super quæstionicorations, his fancy, to say “bus pro more annuo compo. nothing of the Apocalypse, was “ nenda, prætervectus ipse jam aided and enriched with descrip- “ diu leviculas illiusmodi nugas, some 5 Oedipodioniam volvit sub pectore noctem ! Ergone marcescet sulcantibus obsita rugis meæ rerum “ et rebus seriis intentior, forte with great learning and in puerilitati commisit.” genuity, refused in a book now Milton's Letter to A. Gill, dat. very little known," An Apology Cambridge, Jul. 2, 1628, Épist.“ or Declaration of the Power Fam. Prose Works, ii. 566. They " and Providence of God in the were printed, not for sale, and “ Government of the World,” by sent to his late schoolmaster at Dr. George Hakewill, London, Saint Paul's, Alexander Gill, fol. 1635. The first who ventured aforesaid. For he adds, “ Hæc to propagate it in this country “ quidem typis donata ad te was Dr. Gabriel Goodman, Bp. of misi, utpote quem norim Gloucester, and author of a book poeticarum judicem entitled “ The Fall of Man, or “ acerrimum, et mearum can- “the Corruption of Nature “ didissimum, &c." It is still proved by Natural Reason." a custom at Cambridge, to print Lond. 4to. 1616, and 1624. See the comitial verses accompany- Athen. Oxon. Note signed H. ing the public disputations. Lives of the Poets, ed. 1794. What a curiosity would be the The first edition of Dr. Hakesheet with Milton's copy ! will's book was published in To be able to write a Latin 1627, the year preceding the verse called Versificari, date of Milton's poem. Todd. looked upon as a high accom- And from this poem Mr. Todd plishment in the dark ages. and Dr. Symmons conclude, This art they sometimes applied against Dr. Johnson, that Milton to their barbarous philosophy: was free from prepossessions and the practice gave rise to the like those which Hakewill comTripos Verses at Cambridge, and bated. Dr. J. however was alludthe Carmina Quadragesimalin at ing to P. L. ix. 44. Oxford. From such rude begin- -unless an age too late, or cold nings is elegance derived. Climate, or years, damp my intended 8. “ There prevailed in Mil- wing, &c. “ ton's time,” says Dr. Johnson, But no poetical expressions of “ an opinion, that the world this kind, nor even an entire was in its decay, that neither College Exercise, can prove what “ trees nor animals had the Milton's real opinions were on “ height or bulk of their prede- either side. E. cessors, &c." This opinion is, was Omniparum contracta uterum sterilescet ab ævo? quoque, Phæbe, tui casus imitabere nati; At pater omnipotens, fundatis fortius astris, 23. Qualis in Ægeam, &c.] See "lum, &c." And Par. Lost, above, El. vi. 81. “ Sic doelt i. 740. See the note Par. L. i. amissum proles Junonia cæ- 746. 40 45 Tardior haud solito Saturnus, et acer ut olim 50 Nec variant elementa fidem, solitoque fragore Lurida perculsas jaculantur fulmina rupes. Nec per inane furit leviori murmure Corus, Stringit et armiferos æquali horrore Gelonos Trux Aquilo, spiratque hyemem, nimbosque volutat. 55 Utque solet, Siculi diverberat ima Pelori Rex maris, et rauca circumstrepit æquora concha Oceani Tubicen, nec vasta mole minorem Ægeona ferunt dorso Balearica cete. neque, Terra, tibi sæcli vigor ille vetusti Priscus abest, servatque suum Narcissus odorem, Et puer ille suum tenet, et puer ille, decorem, Phæbe, tuusque, et, Cypri, tuus ; nec ditior olim Terra datum sceleri celavit montibus aurum Sed 60 63. Hyacinth the favourite See El. v. 77. And Comus, v. boy of Phoebus, Adonis of Venus. 718. oth, like Narcissus, converted -In her own loins into flowers. She hutcht th' all-worshipp'd ore, &c. 64. Terra datum sceleri celavit montibus aurum Again, ibid. 732. ጊ 3 |
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