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i66 F I N G A L. Book III.
In all the Light of blooming Youth fhe came,
Bright as the rifing Moon's refulgent Beam,
When firft emerging from the Clouds of Night,
95 She fhines ferene, and bleffes Man with Light.
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Chriftus and of Nojlrum ; in the fecond Line, the on in Coronet and in Bonis,
make the requifite Correfpondence of Syllables, Frequent Inverfions and
Tranfporuions were permitted in this Poetry ; which would naturally follow
from fuch laborious Attention to the Collocation of Words.
The Curious on this Subjeft may confult likewife Dr. Hicks's fhefaurus
Linguarum feptentriorialium ; particularly the 23d Chapter of his Grammatica
Anglo Saxonica et M^fo Gothica ; where they will find a full Account of the
Structure of the Anglo-Saxon Verfe, which nearly refembled the Gothic.
They will find alfo fome Specimens both oi Gothic and Saxon Poetry. An
Extradt, which Dr. Hicks has given, from the Work of one of the Danijh
Scalders, entitled, Hervarer Saga, containing an Evocation from the Dead,
may be found in the 6th Volume of Mifcellany Poems, publifhed by
Mr. Dryden.
V. 92. In all the Light of blooming Youth Jhe came, iic^ OJ/ian's Genius,
though chiefly turned towards the Sublime and Pathetic, was not confined
to it: in Subjefls alfo of Grace and Delicacy he difcovers the Hand of a
Mafter, His elegant Defcription here of Agandecca, has the Tendernefs of
Tihulhis united with the iVIajefly oi Virgil, Defcriptions of gay and fmiling
Scenes may, without any Difadvantage, be amplified and prolonged.
Force is not the predominant Quality expefted in thcfe. The Defcription
may